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Recover Missing Apps on Your iPhone With These Easy Steps

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John Simth

Every individual has a list of their favorite apps in their device, which they use very often. These apps may be related to different fields of entertainment like sports, news, games, health, fitness tracking, and more. Generally, some apps from the categories mentioned above, come pre-installed with the devices; however, for others, we have to download from the dedicated stores. But have you ever thought what would happen if the app you use very often disappears? How will you recover it?

 

 

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This happens very often with users. Users often complain that the application they were using to date suddenly goes missing. In this article, we will discuss some of the best ways to recover the disappeared app back to your iPhone. This often happens with applications like Safari, iTunes Store, Camera, FaceTime, and sometimes App Store itself. There might be many possible reasons for the sudden disappearance of an app from your iPhone. The possible reason for the app disappearance may be that it might have got deleted or moved to any other area of your device.

So, considering that the app is still on your device but is working in a stealth mode because of the restrictions which iOS might have laid on it, you may make it visible on your screen with the help of the steps which we have mentioned in this article below.

Everything About the iPhone Restrictions

With the help of the restrictions feature of iOS, users can disable a specific app or a feature of that app. Restrictions can be used to block or disable the privacy settings, location services, change email accounts or game centers, and more. The restrictions feature of iOS, when enabled, can hide various apps like AirDrop, Mail, CarPlay, Siri & Dictation, camera, Safari, FaceTime, and many more.

Uses of Restriction

Generally, restrictions are used by IT administrators and guardians. Guardians use restrictions to prevent their children from accessing the content, which might not be of any significant importance to them. The content might be related to any apps or settings.

On the other hand, IT administrators might be disabling the apps or settings on the company’s devices to follow the company’s policies to restrict the sensitive data or any information that might hardly be of any use to the employees while they are accessing company’s handsets.

How to Search for the Missing Apps

If any specific application goes missing from your device, then the chances are that it might be still on your device, but in some different directory. To search for that particular app, you can use the built-in Spotlight search tool of your iOS device. If the Spotlight doesn’t show any result to the input, check for the device’s restrictions. There may be chances that the restrictions might have been enabled for that particular app. To turn off the restriction on your iOS device, you may follow the steps mentioned in the next heading.

How to Disable the iOS Restrictions

There is an entirely different set of procedures for disabling the restriction for iOS 12 and newer versions to the disabling of restrictions for iOS 11 and lower versions.

To disable the iOS restrictions on iOS 12 and newer versions, you may follow the below-mentioned steps:

  1. Go to Settings
  2. Click on the Screen Time
  3. Click on the Content & Privacy Restrictions
  4. If you find the restriction setting turned on, you will have to enter the passcode to turn them off. You can also enable or disable the restrictions for each app individually.

To disable the iOS restrictions on iOS 11 and previous versions, you may follow the below-mentioned steps:

  1. Go to Settings
  2. Click on General
  3. Go to Restrictions
  4. Enter the passcode and click on the Disable Restrictions option

How to Get the Deleted Apps Back on Your iOS

If the apps have been completely removed from your device, you cannot get them back. However, you can reinstall them to use them again. But if the application gets missing from the device because of the restrictions, the chances are that it might have been moved to another directory or have been hidden from the main menu. You can, however, recover those apps by the steps which we have already discussed above in the article.

In case you have jailbroken your device, chances are that some of your apps or settings might have gone missing or deleted entirely from your device, you can recover those settings by restoring your phone to factory reset settings. However, this step will remove the jailbreaking feature from your device but will help you get the apps back to your device.

John  Smith is a self-professed security expert; he has been making the people aware of the security threats. His passion is to write about Cybersecurity, cryptography, malware, social engineering, the internet, and new media. He writes for Norton security products at norton.com/setup.

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