Can I Remove the App Drawer?
You can’t remove the iMessage app drawer completely or delete it from your phone or tablet. All you can do is minimize it so that you don’t see it every time you send a text message, or customize it to make it less cluttered or better suited for what you want to use it for. For example, if you don’t want sports apps in your app drawer, or weather icons crowding out the games you like to play with your iMessage contacts, hide those iMessage apps from the app drawer.
How to Hide the iMessage App Drawer
This is the easiest method to delete the iMessage app drawer. Hiding it minimizes it so that you don’t accidentally tap any of the app drawer icons. To hide the app drawer on your iPhone or iPad, open an existing or new message, then tap the A button to the left of the text box.
How to Hide iMessage Apps
Don’t want to hide the iMessage app drawer completely? To clean up the apps that are showing, customize the app drawer.
