Now our mobile phone apps are full of personal and sometimes even confidential information. However, it may happen that you lend your Huawei Y5 to a person you trust without a guarantee that it will not look in the content of the applications on your mobile phone. This is the reason why, to avoid this, the best solution turns out to be to hide an application on your Huawei Y5 . First, we will see how to hide an application on a Huawei Y5 through the settings of the mobile phone. After that we will see how to hide an application on your Huawei Y5 using a third-party application.
How to hide an application on Huawei Y5 using settings
Disable the applications already installed on your Huawei Y5
There are a lot of installed applications that you never use. In the event that you are not using an application and that it bothers you visually or that you want to clean up your mobile phone very easily, the best solution will be very easily to deactivate the application concerned. In this case, how to hide an application on your Huawei Y5 by uninstalling it:
- Access the " Settings »
- Select " Applications »
- Open Application Manager
- Click on the app you want to hide
- Click on " deactivate »
- Confirm your choice by pressing again » deactivate »
Hide an app from your home page
You simply want to hide an application on the most visible space of your Huawei Y5, which is the home page? From then on, you will be able to perform a very simple technique, we present it to you just after, in the event that you want to learn how to hide messages on Huawei Y5, feel free to take a look at our article.
- Go to the home screen
- Long click on the application that you want to hide
- Options will open: click on 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 Huawei Y5 using a third-party application
To hide an application on your Huawei Y5, you will need to download and use a » launcher "Which allows you to personalize your device as you wish, or" app hider »Which gives the possibility to camouflage and hide any applications.
Hide an application on your Huawei Y5 with a Launcher
When you have downloaded an application, the fastest and easiest solution to hide it on your Huawei Y5 will be to download a » launcher »Or in other words an application launcher which will give you the possibility of customize your mobile phone. Among the most famous you will find the application Nova Launcher . This 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, for 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 Huawei Y5 :
- Download the app with Google Play Store .
- Set the app as the default Launcher .
- Open your app drawer .
- Tap and hold an app 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 allows you to hide the applications of your Huawei Y5 by deleting them from the list of applications. To use them, you just have to go through search mode on your Android smartphone, or create a shortcut on Nova Launcher. So, how to completely hide apps on Huawei Y5:
- See you in the » Nova settings "
- Select the option » Drawers »
- Click on " Hide applications »
- Click on the applications present on your Huawei Y5 that you want to hide.
Hide an application on a Huawei Y5 with App Hider
Camouflaging applications by other applications is also the mission that App hider . This was designed to hide the applications on the screen of your Huawei Y5 by adding additional security: a password . Very convenient for anyone who would like to search every nook and cranny of your mobile phone. Here's how to use this app:
- Download the app on Google Play Store .
- Launch the application App Hider.
- Click on the + icon to select one or more apps to hide and click on » importer "
- Click 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 Huawei Y5. In this context:
- Go to 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 , if you ever 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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