These are Apple’s ghost apps

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we thought about it when we uninstall an app iPhone or our iPad disappear foreverNothing could be further from the truth. Most iOS devices, especially iPhones, have to deal with calls. apps fantasy. These are the downloaded and deleted ones but reappears on the screen when the person restores the last backup Connect your iPhone or device to iTunes.

Therefore, Apple’s cloud iCloud does not completely remove the apps even if we uninstall them from our devices and keeps some of their files. This is because Apple has a Backup of data in apps themselves in case you want to keep them installed on another device iOS is linked to your iCloud account.

If you want to delete these files completely so that they do not appear again and do not take up space, we show you how:

The first thing is to uninstall the app from the device in question.. We press and hold our finger on the same icon and delete or X.

After that, we will continue remove ghost file:

  1. Click the ‘Settings’ icon on your device. Once inside, click on your profile identified by your name and/or email address.

  2. Select ‘iCloud’ and then ‘Manage storage’. Click on this last option and your available space in iCloud will appear on the screen.

  3. A list of apps and items will appear with the corresponding space they occupy in iCloud. See this list for the option named ‘Backups’ or ‘Security Copies’.

  4. After clicking it, you will see a list of all devices that may be using the app’s iCloud stored backup. Select the option that says ‘This iPhone’.

  5. A list of apps will appear under the heading ‘Choose data to back up’ and there you have to click ‘See all apps’.

  6. Find the ghost app you want to remove permanently and slide the switch from green to white.

  7. A popup will appear immediately asking if you want to delete the data backed up from that app in iCloud. Click on ‘disable and remove’ and you are done.

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