How many apps are really necessary?

[sting7k]

One...million...APPs!

 

[Ledsteplin]

Too much music seems to be the culprit in most cases. And that's fixable!

 

[the_tech_eater]

This really is a personal question. Nobody can tell you how many apps you need. That's for you to decide.

 

[acerace113]

Too much music seems to be the culprit in most cases. And that's fixable!

Not me, my carrier doesn't have 50 GB data plans nor consistent speeds in my area.

 

[anon(4698833)]

There's not a uniform answer to your initial question...even omitting any relevance to professional usage. People use apps based on preference and personal need, therefore naming how many is "necessary" would be quite a grey area. For instance, I have several sports apps that are very much covered by singular apps all together, but I prefer the usage of multiple apps for individual features that I like better from app to app...I find it necessary for my satisfaction alone, amongst other reasons.

Maybe someone DOES have a need for 4 different note taking apps for whatever reason...in their case it may be very necessary.

 

[Ledsteplin]

There's not a uniform answer to your initial question...even omitting any relevance to professional usage. People use apps based on preference and personal need, therefore naming how many is "necessary" would be quite a grey area. For instance, I have several sports apps that are very much covered by singular apps all together, but I prefer the usage of multiple apps for individual features that I like better from app to app...I find it necessary for my satisfaction alone, amongst other reasons.

Maybe someone DOES have a need for 4 different note taking apps for whatever reason...in their case it may be very necessary.

That's why I have 4 3rd party weather apps. They each have at least one great feature the others don't have. If I could find that one with all those features I like, I'd do that.

 

[Smply_Rcklss]

I have 340 something apps on my M8 & 5s combined. I use my 5s for job related work & my M8 for personal use. As Sean stated, I use 3-4 sports apps also. Espn for updates & news & Yahoo sports for live scores.

Tapatalk'n On The 5s

 

[Davehow]

It's not the number that's important it's the number of choices for a chosen category. This is something those poor misguided holdouts for WP and BB don't get.

 

[mumfoau]

I've never been one to load up on apps. For me what's necessary are my social apps, a weather app, banking app, time Warner app and a few others.

Sent from my VS980 4G using Tapatalk

 

[freelife2014]

3 pages now. I would probably get more :smile:

 

[Flow39]

3 pages now. I would probably get more :smile:

I know if I had more than 16 GB, I'd have a lot more apps too

 

[Tre Lawrence]

There's not a uniform answer to your initial question...even omitting any relevance to professional usage. People use apps based on preference and personal need, therefore naming how many is "necessary" would be quite a grey area. For instance, I have several sports apps that are very much covered by singular apps all together, but I prefer the usage of multiple apps for individual features that I like better from app to app...I find it necessary for my satisfaction alone, amongst other reasons.

Maybe someone DOES have a need for 4 different note taking apps for whatever reason...in their case it may be very necessary.

Well said.

That's the great thing about choice, and why Apple's app ecosystem is so great. One doesn't have to compromise.

Using note-taking for instance, I know a guy who uses one app with cloud functionality for work, one for local device only usage, and one for multi-person collaboration.

Why should he have to use one if he doesn't have to?

 

[A895]

Depends on your needs. I have maybe 23 apps on my phone and even then I am going to uninstall a few because I hardly use them.

 

[Tre Lawrence]

Depends on your needs. I have maybe 23 apps on my phone and even then I am going to uninstall a few because I hardly use them.

This.

If I haven't used a app in a fortnight, I delete it.

One thing I missed on iOS from Android it's the ability (rooted) to backup and delete apps. That way, if I needed to reinstall an app and data at later time, it could be done easily.

 

[mulasien]

Good question and a lot of answers are all valid.

On my iPhone, if I fill three pages up then it's time to go on a purge.

After my last purge, I have a lot of apps that get used a lot, and others that see infrequent use but still enough to warrant being shoved in an 'Apps' folder on my phone - out of the way but still available.

I haven't really downloaded or used any new apps heavily in a while. My iPad used to be full of new games all the time, but I've scaled that back focusing on a couple to play at a time (was getting drowned in new ones and never finished old ones), and mostly use it for web use and videos these days.

I will definitely be getting a bigger iPhone once the new one comes out. 16GB is on the small side for me. Heck, I thought 32GB on my iPad was huge until it got close to full from too many 1GB+ games.

edit: I should mention that I try to avoid overlap in my apps. I have one non-stock weather app (Weather Channel), one scores app, etc. I have several cloud storage apps as I use them all in some way (Dropbox, Google Drive, and Flickr), each one I have has its own unique purpose that makes it untenable for me to delete.

 

[Ledsteplin]

Necessary? What may surprise most of you is that nearly half of all app download activity is done by just 7% of US smartphone owners. The rest just keep what they have. How many new apps have you downloaded in the past month? 75% would say none. Those statistics don't apply to us here on iMore. We're the addicted ones.


Sent from my ancient but trustworthy iPhone 5

 

[playwithedo]

Neccessary for me are about five (third party) apps.

 

[PestPro]

Is there a way to remove apps that come with the phone?

 

[warcraftWidow]

Is there a way to remove apps that come with the phone?

No. Just stick the ones you don't use in a folder somewhere.

 

[YuriyK]

I always have 3 or even more pages. When I want to reduce the number of apps everything appears to be necessary.