Hide iTunes Store App on iPhone and iPod Touch
My iPod Touch comes with me everywhere and is beginning to become more important to me than my phone. That being said, I’ve never once purchased a song off of mobile iTunes, and while I occasionally do download apps from the App Store, I wait until I’m back at my computer before I actually purchase anything. My fear is that, connecting to public and often spotty WiFi, unknown and sinister things might happen. Irrational maybe, but such is the human condition.
Consequently, I have no need to have the iTunes Store app on my iPod at all. Luckily the conscientious developers at Apple have given us a way to remove the iTunes Store app icon from our devices by way of the Restrictions pane in System Preferences. Open up system preferences and tap ‘General.’ Scroll down a little and you’ll see ‘Restrictions.’ Tap it and you’ll be asked for a password (I recommend 1-2-3-4). Entering a password will enable the mobile equivalent of Parental Controls on your Mac. From here you can toggle access to Safari, the App Store, iTunes and even to content marked ‘Explicit’ in your music files. Turning restrictions on for any will make the corresponding app icon disappear. (As you can see, I’m not a big fan of YouTube either.)
Now, how about a way to hide Stocks and Weather?
