Geek Posted October 14, 2011 Posted October 14, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/app-store-icon.jpg" alt="App Store" title="app-store-icon" width="125" height="125" class="alignright size-full wp-image-22447" /> New to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/12/mac-os-x-10-7-2-download/">Mac OS X 10.7.2</a> and <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/ios-5/">iOS 5</a> is the ability to hide purchases from appearing in the Mac App Store, iOS App Store, and the iTunes Store purchased items lists. This is great if you download tons of stuff but use only a fraction of apps, and you don’t want the other items clogging up your purchase history. It’s also really easy to unhide purchases from all the online stores, and we’ll cover that too.</p> <h2 style="font-size:1.3em;">Hide Purchases from the iOS, Mac, & iTunes Stores</h2> <p><strong>Hide a Purchase in iOS:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Swipe over any app to reveal the “Hide” button</li> </ul> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/hide-app-purchases-ios.jpg" alt="Hide App Purchases in iOS" title="hide-app-purchases-ios" width="620" height="149" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22444" /></p> <p><strong>Hide a Purchase in iTunes App Store or Mac App Store</strong></p> <ul> <li>Click on the “Purchases” tab, hover over any purchased item and click on the (X)</li> </ul> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/hide-mac-app-store-purchases.jpg" alt="Hide Mac App Store purchases" title="hide-mac-app-store-purchases" width="620" height="83" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22445" /></p> <p>Of course hiding the purchases is only useful if you can see them again if you need to. That’s just as easy, and regardless of iOS or Mac OS X it’s done through the account settings of iCloud: <span id="more-22433"></span></p> <h2 style="font-size:1.3em;">View Hidden Purchases</h2> <p><strong>Unhide purchases in iOS:</strong></p> <ul> <li>From Account settings, tap on ‘Hidden Purchases’ under the “iTunes in the Cloud” subheader</li> </ul> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ipad-app-store-view-hidden-purchases.jpg" alt="viewing hidden purchases in the iOS App Store on iPad" title="ipad-app-store-view-hidden-purchases" width="584" height="105" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22449" /></p> <p><strong>Unhide purchases in iTunes or Mac OS X:</strong></p> <ul> <li>From Account settings in the iTunes or Mac App Store, click ‘View Hidden Purchases’ under the “iTunes in the Cloud” subheader</li> </ul> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/unhide-hidden-purchases-app-store.jpg" alt="Unhide hidden purchases in the App Store" title="unhide-hidden-purchases-app-store" width="620" height="149" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22434" /></p> <p>Cheers to <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/13/tips-how-to-selectively-hideunhide-past-itunes-purchases/#more-99331848125455435534553454265551388285278282378545133212331?utm_source=forums.hardwarezone.com.sg">9to5mac</a> for the iPad screenshots and AJ for the Mac OS X screenshots.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/P_zQDi5W01kD3u4tVSPazn-s_9g/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/P_zQDi5W01kD3u4tVSPazn-s_9g/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/P_zQDi5W01kD3u4tVSPazn-s_9g/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/P_zQDi5W01kD3u4tVSPazn-s_9g/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=yujdaFDFrG8:eI82FBAtkCU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=yujdaFDFrG8:eI82FBAtkCU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=yujdaFDFrG8:eI82FBAtkCU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=yujdaFDFrG8:eI82FBAtkCU:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=yujdaFDFrG8:eI82FBAtkCU:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=yujdaFDFrG8:eI82FBAtkCU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=yujdaFDFrG8:eI82FBAtkCU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/yujdaFDFrG8" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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