While Apple is regularly adding new features to iOS, there are a few long-requested features that still aren’t there. One of them is the ability to hide or delete Apple’s stock iOS apps, but it looks like Apple may soon cross that off the list of user-requested features, too.
A report from AppAdvice claims to have found code that reads “isFirstParty” and “isFirstPartyHideableApp” in iTunes metadata. These are boolean values that can be changed from true to false, and so the fact that the values can be changed on a per-app basis suggests that only some apps will be hideable.
