How to Hide App Store and iTunes Purchases in iPhone

How to Hide App Store and iTunes Purchases in iPhone [For iOS 8 Users]

The iPhone users purchase too many apps and tools on App Store and iTunes and many of the users want to make it secret. Furthermore, Apple take care of their users concerns and privacy.

That is why, they have included a feature in iOS 8 and 8.1 devices which allows you to Hide App store purchases and the lesser versions can hide iTune purchases too. The App store purchases can be hide directly from your iPhone, but the iTunes purchases can be hidden through Mac or PC

There are many reasons which compel you to hide your App Store and iTunes purchases. Therefore, keeping that thing in our mind. We are going to share a guide to protect your privacy.

This is a kind of very simple and easy to apply guide. You are supposed to follow these simple steps which are waiting for you to hide App Store and iTunes purchases. So, without killing much of your time, we request you to get through below steps.

Learn-How to Hide App Store and iTunes Purchases

So, here we have brought the methods of hiding App store and iTunes purchases. We have categorized- both App Store and iTunes, separately for your conveniences.

1- Hide App Store Purchases

First, we are going to share a method to hide App Store purchases. You can hide app Store Purchases only in iOS 8 or 8.1 because it is important to have enabled Family Sharing feature otherwise, this method would not work for you. If Family Sharing is not enable on your device then refer below guide.

Now, whenever you make any purchase from App store then your purchases get listed under Purchase menu, and if you want to hide that purchase from there, then you have to follow these simple steps.

• First of all, you need to open the App Store from your iOS 8 or 8.1 device
• After that, you need to Tap on Updates and then go to Purchased, now you will have complete list of purchases
• Afterwards, you need to tap on any particular app which you’ll like to Hide from purchases, then you have to swap on Hide button, which will be there with every purchase and then your purchases will be hidden from the list
• Congratulations! You have hidden the App Store Purchases.

This was the simple steps which you can use to hide Purchases on the App store for iOS 8 and 8.1 users. However, if you have lesser versions then you may refer the below method, which is little complicated and frizzy.

2- Hide iTunes Purchases

iTunes is another service which can be used for purchases but the method of hiding iTunes purchases is little complicated. It can work for every iOS 8 version and lesser ones. If you want to know about this method, then you need to follow the below steps

• First you need to open iTunes on your PC or Mac
• Now, from Store menu, you need to go to Store and then Sign In
• After that, you need to Sign In there by using your, Apple ID and Password
• Afterwards, you need to go to iTunes Store and then you will see different options, you need to Click onPurchased under Quick Links
• Furthermore, it will give you different content type options which will be referring the purchased categories; Music, Games, Movies, Apps or etc. You have to Click on any category from which you want to hide purchase
• Ones, you have Clicked on categories then you will see different purchases under the category. Then you have to take mouse to the purchase, which you want to hide. When you will take mouse cursor to the purchase then you will see a Cross at the right corner of purchase icon, you need to Click on that Cross
• Then, you will receive a confirmation message box, you need to Click on Hide from that confirmation box

• You need to repeat this process to hide each purchase
• Congratulations! You have hidden the iTunes purchases successfully.