Sarah Perez, writing for Tech Crunch:
Apple today has made a big change to its suite of native applications for iOS devices, like Mail, Stocks, Compass, Calculator, Watch, Weather and others: it’s now making these available as standalone downloads in the iTunes App Store. What that means for end users of iOS devices is that the majority of the stock apps that come pre-installed can be removed. This puts users in more control of their devices.
Yes: you can now remove the Stocks app from your iPhone, among others.
That might explain Kirk’s problem. But I am still puzzled by the difference between Find My Friends and Stocks pointed out in that post.
One suggestion from reader Robert Gaugl:
Find my Friend was a separate download in older iOS versions. So you downloaded it back then. With iOS 7 (8) Apple implemented it in iOS. It’s not available in the App Store anymore, but it’s still listed in My Apps because you downloaded it back than.
Interesting.
Its come back to the AppStore for iOS10 because you can now delete the icon, and the AppStore is the only way to restore the icon; apparently this just deletes data and icon, not the actual code.
It makes no sense to download these stubs/control points to iTunes as they can’t be installed on non iOS10 devices. I suspect a newer iTunes will give a better error message!
Find My Friends used to be a download. I had an issue with iTunes on my Mac saying there was an update for it but not being able to download. I went ahead and deleted it from my Mac.
Lovely. Now Podcasts and Find Friends shows up in iTunes as having an update available, but when clicked and directed to update, it tells you that you must do that on your iOS device… where of course there are no updates available to those apps.
I get that you can just delete the apps from your Mac and they won’t get deleted from your iPhone, but this is just silly and confusing for the average user. Not very well thought-out by Apple.
@JimD: The solution is to delete the app from iTunes (i.e., control-click delete on the icon).
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