Take Control of Your iPhone, 2nd Edition

Delete Apps

Occasionally, because you no longer use a particular app or because it keeps crashing when you try, you may decide to delete an application. You may choose to delete an app only from your iPhone (leaving it installed in iTunes, for archival purposes) or delete it entirely (from both your iPhone and from iTunes).

Delete Apps to Save Space

Starting in iTunes 8.0, the Capacity graph at the bottom of the iPhone display in iTunes (Figure 5-2) separately shows an Apps section (prior to iTunes 8, apps were in the Other section). If your iPhone's memory is nearly out of free space, and if the graph indicates that apps are taking up a significant amount of storage, you can reclaim space by removing any apps you rarely or never use.

Figure 5-2. The ...