Remove / hide stock apple apps

[amortimer]

Hi,
I'm trying to remove or hide a few apps such as garageband, iTunesU, Pages etc from iPads using airwatch 9.7. When I go to hide these apps in the profile setup with restrictions, the apps don't appear in the search - even though other apps installed on the iPads do.
Anyone know why these apps don't appear while others do?
Thanks

[KEVINSCHELLINGE]

I asked this exact question to the helpdesk. I was told to buy the app (its free on VPP), then push it then remove it from all devices. Either I did this wrong or it didn't work. Just my experience. I would love to find a solution. Its a few GB of trash apps that are on these devices.

[JeoffreyBurri · Accepted solution]

You need to know the bundle ID of the app. Just enter it (you don't need to use one in the list) an click on the + symbol. You find the bundle ids by a google search. Here are a few: https://github.com/joeblau/apple-bundle-identifiers Jeoffrey

[KEVINSCHELLINGE]

That worked for me Jeoffrey, thank you so much!! Sorry Andrew if I hijacked your thread.

[JeoffreyBurri]

Kevin, just to be clear: the apps won't get uninstalled, just hidden. You won't free any storage space... There's no way to uninstall system apps.

[KEVINSCHELLINGE]

Just hiding them is a win. I wish we could free up the space without having to manually remove from the devices. Thanks!

[amortimer]

Very helpful Kevin as hiding will do for the meantime.

I have hidden the apps based on the bundle IDs however they're still showing - not too sure why that is.

[LukeDC]

Kevin, What's the use case for hiding them? Just always wondered why people do it. I can see some reasons, but if you could share that would be great!

[KEVINSCHELLINGE]

For us to keep the iPad as clean as possible. We also are letting personal devices in and some of these people have 9 screens of apps. I just would like only what is needed on the iPad for less issues.

[KEVINSCHELLINGE]

Andrew, Mine took a good minute or two for them to take effect.

[amortimer]

All sorted, I was trying to be clever and copy the format of the apps which you can search and putting in ' GarageBand (com.apple.mobilegarageband)' . Now I've just put in the address ' com.apple.mobilegarageband'  the hide function is working.

[chrisnenzel]

Wanted to thank Jeoffrey B for the pointer to the git hub page with the apple bundle identifiers.  This solved my issue with hiding the remainder of the stock apps I couldn't find by searching.  Wishing I could put the Catalog link into a folder but was told by Airwatch Support that this isn't possible. 

[tfriedm]

Jeoffrey, just wondering if there is another bundle identifier for ' Shortcuts'  in iOS 13. You have listed: is.workflow.my.app, which isn't listed in as one that can be hidden and I've also tried to add it in a custom script, which isn't working either.

Thanks for all the other one's. Makes it a lot easier to identify and hide.

Todd

[JeoffreyBurri]

It's not my list, probably should've mentioned that in the original post.
Shortcuts: com.apple.shortcuts (is.workflow.my.app was the ID during the Beta)
Find my: com.apple.findmy

The App doesn't need to be in the list, just copy / paste the ID into the search field and click the + sign. WS ONE just makes it easier by showing the human readable name of the App whenever possible.

[tfriedm]

Perfect, that was my problem. I was looking for WS One to validate the name com.apple.shortcuts. Once I hit the + sign, it kept it in the list and then hid it on the associated device when published. Thanks for the quick response.

[coachdk]

I was successful  in hiding ' Find my' , but ' Shortcuts'  is still there. Any ideas?

[JeoffreyBurri]

Daniel, do you use ' com.apple.shortcuts'  and not ' is.workflow.my.app'  as the identifier? And it's the public iOS / iPad OS Version, not the Beta Version?

[coachdk]

Hi Jeoffrey,

I am using ' com.apple.shortcuts'  and it is the public version.

[coachdk]

Hi,

just a little update:
After iOS 13.1.2 it is working as expected.