Here’s how to hide the Newsstand Icon in iOS 5

With iOS 5, Newstand is a fancy folder that houses all of your subscriptions. But what if you wanted to hide Newstand? Technically it’s a folder and iOS prohibits nesting of folders. We should caution that following this trick will hide Newstand within a folder, but it will also render it useless. Correction: It will crash your iPhone or iPad. This neat magic trick does require fast fingers, so be prepared to move and groove.

c9621d9e Heres how to hide the Newsstand Icon in iOS 5

  • Take two apps and go to create a folder
  • The second the apps are in the folder and it’s doing the folder creation animation, drag Newsstand into the folder
  • As long as you’re quick enough Newsstand will go into the folder!

You could also push it off to some far away screen, but what’s the fun in that.

Source: The Coding Massacre via Gizmodo via TiPB

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Christopher Meinck is the Founder and Editorial Director at everythingiCafe. You can also find him co-hosting on everytingiCafe :the show. His obsession over smartphones started with a Handspring Treo 180. While the phones have changed, the obsession continues. You can find him on Google+ and Twitter.

Comments

  1. Anonymous says:

    Dude I just did this and not my phone crashed every time I try to open Newsstand!!!!!!!

  2. It’s like trying to play a game you can’t win. Thanks.

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