Tips app? Seriously?

iOS
#1

So I’ve read online this morning that the new iOS Beta 4 has a “tips” app built in, which is not uninstallable. Assuming (and it would be nice if I was wrong) that this actually makes it to GM, it frankly annoys me quite a bit. We already have enough shitty little apps like Stocks, Weather, etc etc which you just relegate to a “rubbish” folder or whatever. Yes I know some people use them but not everybody. It would be far better if they were optional and you could install/uninstall them via the appstore like anything else. With a new version of iOS I might well want to read some “tips” when I first upgrade, but I certainly won’t want to look at them after that.

Or maybe by definition I’m wanting to move to Android (again)? LOL.

What do others think?

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#2

Yep just another icon to add to my “iOS Apps” folder that houses all the crap I can’t get rid of.

#3

So true @gehenna

#4

To the unused folder on it’s own home page at the very back of the home screens.

What kind of tips is it for? For calculating gratuities or?

#5

Nah, tips as in “new user tips” (but I also thought it was for calculating tips, which would seem like a strangely US-centric app to add.

Those of us who have been using iPhones for years, but for everyone else, it might be pretty useful. MacRumors went hands-on with the app.

#6

US company being US centric despite majority of sales being outside US never surprises me :wink:

New user tips seems a bit of a silly thing to make unremovable.

#7

Yeah. Perhaps they could make it a webclip instead, with the last tip on being how to remove it and other third-party apps? :smile:

#8

That’s not a silly idea, in fact it would be better if this was an optional widget in Notification Center that updated every so often with a new tip that you could tap on to be taken to a web page with more detail.

#9

When I first read the title I assumed it was something related to that location aware app suggestion stuff but alas it’s much less hi-tech. I dare say mine will end up in the dumpster folder on the last page along with all the other default apps I don’t use and other apps that haven’t quite made it to the delete button.