How to Hide Recent & Suggested Apps from iPad Dock in iOS 11

How to Hide Recent & Suggested Apps from iPad Dock in iOS 11

One of the various new features introduced to iPad with modern iOS is a revamped Dock, complete with a new Recent and Suggested Apps section that appears on the far right side of the iPad Dock, delineated by a faint separator line. Most iPad users will appreciate having the Suggested Apps and Recent Apps section allowing for easy access to apps that were accessed recently or that are often used, but for those who dont want to see those Dock items they can be disabled. Maybe you prefer minimalism, or maybe you dont want to offer any leads on what apps you were recently using or use often. In any event, heres how to hide and disable the Suggested and Recent Apps feature of the Dock for iPad in iOS. Note the Suggested and Recent Apps capability is only available to iPad users with iOS 11 or later installed on their device, neither the setting or feature is available in earlier iOS releases or on other iOS devices. By disabling the suggested and recent apps feature in the Dock, those apps will be hidden and no longer appear in iPad Dock, this is a simple settings change: Once the setting has been turned off, if you return to the Home Screen or flick open Control Center on iPad you will notice the right side of the Dock has fewer icons visible now. The Show Suggested and Recent Apps feature will show up to three apps that are either suggested or recent. The suggested apps are learned and generated over time based on app usage habits, and the list will change periodically throughout the day and periodically depending on what apps youre using. Of course you can reverse this setting any time and enable the suggested and recent apps feature as well: Returning to the Home Screen or the Control Center to reveal the iPad Dock will show the recent apps feature available and visible again. If you disable Show Suggested and Recent Apps and still find an occasional icon appearing on the far right side of the iPad Dock, like what is shown in the screenshots here, that icon is likely from Handoff. The Handoff capability is identified by a little device badge hovering over the app icon, and . To hide that apps Dock icon as well, youd need to disable Handoff on the iPad.