4 Apps Apple Employees Say You Don’t Really Need On Your iPhone In 2025
February 3, 2025 by Lisa Cupido
In just a few years’ time, some of the apps that we once considered must-haves have become not-so-must-haves. As technology evolves in all fields, including on our iPhones and in our cars, many apps that once wowed us by performing convenient tasks for us are slowly starting to seem obsolete.
We aren’t at the point just yet where these apps have been completely replaced by something newer and better, but we’re getting there. According to many experts, these four apps really aren’t necessary on your phone. If you’re searching for ways to conserve storage and battery power, as well as just free up your phone, these four are worth looking at.
1. Photo Editing Apps
The iPhone 15 series introduced even more professional upgrades to your phone’s camera, so much so that it’s becoming more difficult to find a place for photo editing apps, which also usually take up tons of storage space. The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max models have a 48MP main sensor that offer even higher resolution photos with more detail. Night Mode has been improved and the Pro Max’s 5x zoom helps capture distant images. In short, the vast number of improvements to your phone’s camera have replaced the need for many photo editing app functions.
2. Standalone Navigation Apps
Whether or not you should delete standalone navigation apps all depends on how advanced your car’s technology is and how confident you feel it can get you around. Many car GPS systems are now equipped with real-time traffic and rerouting capabilities, map updates, offline navigation, and voice assistants. And many have rendered older navigation apps obsolete.
3. Individual News Apps
This one is a matter of preference. If you prefer visiting specific news apps for that outlet’s take on the day’s news, there’s no good reason to delete the app. But if you’d rather have Apple aggregate important news stories for you, it can do so via Apple News, and this means you can safely delete your other individual news apps.
4. So Many Social Media Apps
Many tech experts are over social media apps — or, at the very least, are picking and choosing carefully so that they aren’t giving their data out to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and others at the same time. We’re already well aware of the amount of data these apps collect, and some are turning toward encrypted messaging services instead to stay in touch with friends and family without compromising their privacy and security.