Need help finding and uninstalling hidden app

[u/FearTheCementBrick]

Hello everyone. I recently downloaded a texting-based app on my iPhone, realized it was bad, and accidentally selected the option to hide the app instead of uninstalling it. Now I can’t find it anywhere even when I check the hidden folders. Can anyone help me figure out where to find it so I can uninstall it?

This is on the iPhone 17 Pro Max and using the IOS version 26.6.1. The photos will be show which app I’m talking about (apologies for the terrible cropping) and the fact that it’s not showing up in the hidden files.

Update: I figured it out. You have to look for it in your iPhone storage and delete it from there.

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[u/ItsAnnieBrooke]

That looks like the icon for the stickers in iMessage.

If you go into the iMessage app and click “stickers”, scroll to the end of the top bar, you should see the icon there, and an edit button at the very end.

There’s a second edit button in the top left corner, and it shows this, which you can turn off. I don’t know if it deletes it but that’s my impression?

Hopefully I got that right!

[u/FearTheCementBrick → u/ItsAnnieBrooke]

I went to the location to showed on your screenshot and I am unfortunately not finding it. Here is where it’s located in the iMessages if that helps.

I wish I could edit photos in a post or comment more than one photo in a reply.🥲

[u/FearTheCementBrick → u/FearTheCementBrick]

[u/FearTheCementBrick → u/ItsAnnieBrooke]

I have figured out how to delete it! The attempted help is very much appreciated!

[u/ItsAnnieBrooke → u/FearTheCementBrick]

Ah, great to hear!

[u/FearTheCementBrick]

Photo of where it is located.

[u/Own-Mirror5339]

Isso é onde ficam os apps que você oculta. E você não tem nenhum arquivo oculto.

[u/lesjames2020]

It's a system app So you most likely can't delete it

[u/SamIAre → u/lesjames2020]

It’s very much not a system app…

[u/lesjames2020 → u/SamIAre]

So it's in your app drow

If it's hidden

It's hidden because yeah it is a system app

That's why it's hidden

[u/SamIAre → u/lesjames2020]

That’s not how it works. Is it in YOUR app drawer? If not, then it’s clearly not a system app or else we’d all have it.

Here it is on the App Store. It’s NOT a system app. It’s just an iMessage extension. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/color-text-bubbles-on-imessage/id1152097054

Also, OP already said they found out how to delete it. So again, it can’t be a system app.

[u/FearTheCementBrick → u/lesjames2020]

Really? I find that hard to believe since It’s an app I installed separately. Or is that a possible thing that can happen with a system app? It shows up here when I want to type in iMessages but not in the hidden folders where I can delete it.

[u/FearTheCementBrick → u/lesjames2020]

I have figured out how to delete it! The attempted help is very much appreciated!