Unhide?

[frogywill]

Ok so there’s a button to hide apps… but I can’t figure out how to unhide ? It’s a problem of course. There has to be a way. Anyone ?

 

[tobyringle69]

Have you tried looking in the App Store settings
?

 

[frogywill]

Yes. I’m not talking about after I erase an app. It’s after you click the option to hide other apps (press and hold the X ). How do you make them come back into view?

 

[tobyringle69]

Yes. I’m not talking about after I erase an app. It’s after you click the option to hide other apps (press and hold the X ). How do you make them come back into view?

Yes. I’m not talking about after I erase an app. It’s after you click the option to hide other apps (press and hold the X ). How do you make them come back into view?

it’s located in iCloud settings under “Media and Purchases”

 

[frogywill]

I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing. In Apple Vision Pro, you can “hide other apps” by holding the X icon at the bottom of a window. Once hidden there is no obvious way to “unhide”.

 

[Lobwedgephil]

I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing. In Apple Vision Pro, you can “hide other apps” by holding the X icon at the bottom of a window. Once hidden there is no obvious way to “unhide”.

It appears to "hide" them, means to close them. So currently, have to reopen the individually.

 

[chabig]

I'd expect it to operate the same as a Mac. To open an app that's hidden, you open it again. On a Mac, you can get to the app windows from the Dock. On the AVP, go to the Home Screen and select the app.

 

[klasma]

It's weird that they use different wording ("close" and "hide") within the same menu for what is apparently the same thing.

 

[chabig]

It sounds like you can think of it as “Close this app” and “Close all other apps”.

Move, resize, and close app windows on Apple Vision Pro

You can move apps where you want them in your view, as well as change the size of apps.

support.apple.com

“You can pinch and hold

, then tap “Close [app]” to close the current app, or tap “Hide others” to close all other apps.”

 

[frogywill]

It appears to "hide" them, means to close them. So currently, have to reopen the individually.

I accidentally used that yesterday while using Mac virtual display and you cannot reopen the virtual display app without first ending the session and then start it again, so it’s kind of dumb. The whole time the app was hidden, but the session was still active so my Mac screen was black and under control center it showed as active.

 

[Gregsatin]

I thought I figured this out, sort of.

I thought maybe when you “close” an app, that window is gone. That its position in space and whatever you were doing in it is gone, too. So for example if you “close” a Safari window, the next time you reopen Safari, that window will be in a blank state and a new position in space. And then unhide would preserve its position in space and the content of whatever you were working on.

But I tried it just now and closing and then reopening preserved my Safari window’s position and content… so… hmmm…

 

[xraydoc]

But I tried it just now and closing and then reopening preserved my Safari window’s position and content… so… hmmm…

Yeah, as far as I can tell, it's like iOS/iPadOS where an app will persist in the background until such time the system needs the memory and gets purged (in order of oldest to most recent). Unlike on macOS, there's no "quit" for an app.

 

[TLewis]

But I tried it just now and closing and then reopening preserved my Safari window’s position and content… so… hmmm…

When you hide something, you're closing the app, and the app may or may not shut down completely. However, when you close an app, it's not unusual for the window position and state (what you were doing) to be preserved, and re-opening/restarting the app brings up the window with whatever you were doing (this includes multiple safari tabs, etc.). This isn't like some cruddy windows program that loses everything if you close the program without saving.

 

[OriginalAppleGuy]

There is a quit for an app. Hold down both buttons until you see “force quit”. Then select the app and force it to quit.