How to See How Many Apps Are on Your iPhone

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Last Updated: September 6, 2019

This wikiHow teaches you how to view the number of third party apps on your iPhone and to view how much storage they use.

Method 1

Method 1 of 2:
Viewing the Number of Third Party Apps

1
Open your iPhone's Settings. Do this by tapping the icon with gray cogs on your home screen.
- It may be in a folder labeled “Utilities.”
2
Tap General.
3
Tap About. This will display a table with various information about your phone.
4
Find “Applications” in the table. The number displayed to the right of it shows how many third party apps are on your iPhone.
- It does not include any default iPhone apps or webpage links you saved to your screen.

Method 2

Method 2 of 2:
Managing Your Apps

1
Open your iPhone's Settings. This is the app with gray cogs located on your home screen.
- If you don't see it, check in a folder labeled "Utilities."
2
Scroll down and tap General. You'll find it in the third set of options.
3
Tap Storage and iCloud Usage.
4
Tap Manage Storage in the first set of options. This will display apps that take up the most storage on your phone in descending order.
5
Tap on an app. This will take you to a screen where you can view its version and documents & data size.
6
Tap Delete App to remove the app from your phone. You may choose to do this on apps with a large documents & data size to make space on your phone.
- Note that you will not be able to recover information stored in an app once it is deleted.
7
Tap Delete App again to confirm.
- You won't be able to delete some stock apps like Photos & Camera, but at least you'll know if it's time to do some cleaning.

Warnings

Many tech websites say you can bring up a list of your apps by typing a period in your Spotlight Search, however, this no longer works in most or all versions of iOS.

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1. Open your iPhone’s Settings.
2. Tap General.
3. Tap About.
4. Find Applications to view the number of third party apps on your iPhone.

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