iRant: Uninstalling apps on the iPhone
July 21, 2008 by J.T Dabbagian
Filed under Electronics
As some of you may have noticed, the iPhone allows you to sync up your apps within iTunes, so this way, any app you download via the iPhone will immediately be available to you in the event of a problem. Unfortunately, this presents a bit of an issue when you want to delete an application from the iPhone….
Recently, I was tooling around with a quasi-social networking app for the iPhone, and after three straight days of trying to get it to act decently, It just kept messing up. (And yes, you will be seeing a review of this former Installer-based app soon.) So I deleted it. But then, when I synced my iPhone, I noticed that it made an appearance again!
See, whenever you decide to delete an app from the iPhone, it gets deleted, but then when you sync up to iTunes, the program notes that it has an application that isn’t on the program, so what does it do? It syncs the program to your phone, so now you’re stuck with the same program that you just uninstalled!
Come on, Apple. I’d figure you’d have more smarts then to let this happen. At least with Installer, I could uninstall an app, and it was gone for good. I didn’t have to go into iTunes and manually delete the damn thing! Apple should make it so that once an app is uninstalled on the iPhone, it’s gone for good on iTunes until next download. Maybe it will be in the next update?
Wow, I tell you. Can’t seem to please everyone. If you don’t want the program on your iPhone after syncing it to iTunes, don’t back it up to iTunes. Now if something happens to your phone and you were undable to back it up from iTunes, you would be writing an artcile complaining about that also.
Geezzz
well iphone is good! i havent found any probs with it so far! cant wait to grab version 2 ;)! besides m looking forward to write a review on it! check it out! cheers!