Once again there are provisions in iOS and MacOS for storing the logon information (userID and password) for
- Flickr
- Vimeo
- Twitter
- Facebook
- TV Provider
- Microsoft Exchange
- Google
- LinkedIn
- Yahoo
- AOL
- and lest we forget it Apple (although that is captured in a different place in settings it still works the same way)
Providing the account information in iOS or MacOS
does not provide the means of accessing those accounts. Access requires an app or apps for each and those may be standard Apple apps or third party apps. Those apps are dependent on the userid and password for each of those various accounts but are independent of the data itself.
Account data may be used by multiple apps and an app may use the data from multiple accounts. For example on my system the Google account data is used by Mail, Airmail, Google Maps, and Google Earth. The twitter account data is used by Twitter and TwitterBot. By the same token Mail and Airmail use the Apple, Google, and "other" account data. I would be really
if deleting one of those apps also deleted the account information because it would disable all the other apps that use it and
vice-versa.
As to TV Provider, that is the satellite or cable company that you use and each of them have their own app. For example to utilize the DirecTV account you would have to download the
DirecTV,
DirecTV NOW, or one of the other 18 DirecTV apps, but you would setup the account data for all 20 of those in Settings > TV Provider > DirecTV.
Once again there are only two ways of getting rid of your "clutter"...
- Convince Apple to remove it from iOS (which is highly unlikely) or
- Switch to a cell phone that does not use iOS for example and Android phone, but you will likely have clutter there it will just be different clutter.
