You can now hide and lock your applications to boost your mobile privacy and security. Here's how and when you should use it.

Apple's latest operating system, iOS 18, introduces a novel feature that allows users to hide apps from their devices. This function not only removes the app icon from the home screen but also secures it in a specially designed 'Hidden' folder within the App Library.

BGR compiled a list of 13 iOS 18 hidden features that will make your life much easier, including some for your new iPhone 16.

Biometrics are normally required to even see the contents of this hidden folder, before you can access one of the apps hidden inside it. However, now that iOS 18 has been released to the world, users are discovering ways to find out which apps have been hidden,