For shortcuts and loaders that, once set up, only clutter the home
screen. ⋯ → "Hide from home screen" on a Games card; a "Hidden" badge
marks it, "N hidden from the home screen" at the top filters to them,
and ⋯ → "Show on home screen" puts it back.
How: every user's icon table in app.db (tbl_iconinfo_<user>) has a
`visible` flag; the system hides some of its own apps with it. The
helper (app.icon_set, app.hidden_list) flips only that flag: nothing is
deleted, the title stays installed and playable. Guards: title ids only,
system apps (NPXS) refused, tables found by shape (titleId + visible),
app.db backed up once to /data/ps5upload/app.db.before-hide before the
first change, BEGIN IMMEDIATE (fails before any change if the system
holds the lock), and rolled back unless at least one and at most one
row per table changed. The hidden list is read live from app.db, so it
cannot drift from the console, and leaves out the system's own hidden
apps. The home screen redraws when an app is next opened and closed;
the console shows a notification saying so.
Verified on the Phat (FW 13.60): WebKit Autoloader hidden, listed, shown
again; a system app and an unknown id refused; the backup written.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ub1mez9eaVtTF8pMEFXvA9
