If for some privacy reason you want to hide the icons of some applications installed on an iPhone or iPad, no special tricks are needed, just follow this guide. Hiding apps can also be useful to get rid of pre-installed apps, the ones that can't be uninstalled.
Without needing to jailbreak iOS, you can take advantage of a small bug of the IOS 9 system to hide applications on iPhone and iPad or even entire folders from the main screen.
To do this you have to create a nested folder, that is a folder inside another folder .
Step 1: create the subfolder
First of all, identify the applications you want to hide and put them all in a folder that we will call folder A.
To create a folder, just hold down and drag one app over another.
You can continue adding all the applications you want to hide in that folder A.
Once ready, you need to create another folder.
Drag one app over the other to make folder B and then drag inside folder A.
The act itself is somewhat difficult and must be done quickly.
Basically you have to create folder B by moving one app to another and then moving folder A to folder B before you open the zoom.
Once you enter folder B with your finger, you can release it.
Press the Home button and you're done, we have folder B with sub-folder A.
If the explanation in words was not clear, I found a demonstration video:
Step 2: Hide the Folder & Apps
So we managed to create a sub-folder A with two applications inside folder B.
At this point, the apps used to create it can be removed from folder B, except of course the sub-folder A.
Move the folder B on the first screen of applications on the iPhone, placing it in the middle of many others, making sure that there are no free spaces.
You will find that folder B has no icons inside it, as if it were empty (while there are apps in folder A instead).
Open folder B and drag folder A to the bottom, where there are fixed apps.
At this point both folder B and A will disappear.
All applications in folder A are now hidden and nobody will be able to find out where they are.
To review hidden apps, you can only access them by searching.
If you ever want to use these applications, you can access them through the Search function.
Restarting the iPhone or iPad, the app icons will be visible again.
Below the video demonstration
