Yeah – this seems to be happening again for me as well.
Quick (and fairly lazy) fix is to just style them out of the UI box for iThemes
Just insert the following into the WP Admin Dashboard header by amending your functions.php file and it should remove them without having to worry about plugin updates “breaking” the fix.
https://gist.github.com/tjhole/8aa39c9062746fcbb862 into your functions.php file
