These days our smartphone apps are filled with personal and sometimes even confidential information. And unfortunately, it may happen that you lend your Alcatel 1V to someone you trust without a guarantee that they will not look in the content of the applications on your smartphone. Therefore, to avoid this, the best technique is to hide an application on your Alcatel 1V . First, we will see how to hide an application on an Alcatel 1V using the smartphone settings. And then we will see how to hide an application on your Alcatel 1V using a third party application.
How to hide an application on Alcatel 1V using settings
Disable the applications already installed on your Alcatel 1V
There are a lot of apps that are installed that are not of much use. If you ever do not use an application and it bothers you visually or you want everything in a very simple way to clean up your smartphone, the best technique will be all in a very simple way to deactivate the application concerned. So, how to hide an application on your Alcatel 1V by uninstalling it:
- Open the " Settings »
- Choose " Applications »
- Open Application Manager
- Click on the app you want to hide
- Click on " deactivate »
- Confirm your choice by clicking again on » deactivate »
Hide an app from your home page
You simply want to hide an application on the most visible space of your Alcatel 1V, which is the home page? In this case, you can achieve a very simple solution, we present it to you below, in the event that you want to learn how to hide messages on Alcatel 1V, feel free to take a look at our article.
- Go to the home screen
- Long press on the app that you want to hide
- Options will open: press the button » Supprimer »
Now the app that you removed from your home screen will only be accessible through the search menu.
How to hide an application on your Alcatel 1V using a third-party application
To hide an application on your Alcatel 1V, you will need to download and use a » launcher "Which allows you to personalize your device as you see fit, or" app hider »Able to camouflage and hide any applications.
Hide an application on your Alcatel 1V using a Launcher
Once you've downloaded an application, the fastest and easiest way to hide it on your Alcatel 1V will be to download a » launcher »Or in other words an application launcher which will give you the possibility of customize your smartphone. Among the most popular there is the application Nova Launcher . The latter is available, in free or paid version. It will allow you to change your home screen to renaming names and changing icons of all your applications. However, to do this you will first need to install it and configure it as the default launcher.
Discover how to use Nova Launcher in free version to hide an application on your Alcatel 1V :
- Download the app using Google Play Store .
- Set the app as the default Launcher .
- Open your app drawer .
- Press and hold on an application that you want to configure and hide.
- Click on " Edit "
- Give it the name you want then press » finish "
- Click on the icon of the application to modify it in turn.
In the paid version, Nova Launcher offers you the possibility of hiding the applications of your Alcatel 1V by deleting them from the list of applications. To use it, you won't have to go through search mode on your Android smartphone, or create a shortcut on Nova Launcher. So, how to completely hide applications on an Alcatel 1V:
- Go to the " Nova settings "
- Choose the option » Drawers »
- Click on " Hide applications »
- Click on the applications installed on your Alcatel 1V that you want to hide.
Hide an application on an Alcatel 1V using App Hider
Camouflaging applications by other applications is also the objective that App hider . The latter was designed to hide the applications on the screen of your Alcatel 1V by adding additional security: a password . Very useful for anyone who would like to dig into every nook and cranny of your smartphone. Here's how to use this app:
- Download the app on Google Play Store .
- Launch the application App Hider.
- Click the + icon to select one or more apps to hide and press » importer "
- Press to finish on the Menu .
- Select » Hide To hide the apps in the App Hider app.
In the application menu you can also hide the App Hider application as a calculator under the name Calculator +. In this way, your application will be even better to hide in your Alcatel 1V. For that:
- Access the menu of the App Hider application.
- Click on " Set up PIN now »And enter a password.
- By the time you launch the Calculator + app , in the event that you dial the PIN code, the normal application will open. In the event that no PIN code is entered, the app will open like a real calculator!
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