Nowadays our smartphone apps are full of private and at times even confidential data. Unfortunately, you may lend your Huawei Y7p to someone you trust without a guarantee that they will not watch the content of your smartphone's applications. This is why, in order not to risk this kind of disappointment, the best solution is to hide an application on your Huawei Y7p . To begin with, we are going to see how to hide an application on a Huawei Y7p using the smartphone settings. Then we will see how to hide an application on your Huawei Y7p using a third-party application.
How to hide an application on Huawei Y7p using settings
Disable the applications already installed on your Huawei Y7p
There are many applications that are installed that are never used. If you are not using an application and it bothers you visually or you want to clean everything very easily in your smartphone, the best solution will be very easily to deactivate the application concerned. In this situation, how to hide an application on your Huawei Y7p by uninstalling it:
- Access the " Settings »
- Select " Applications »
- Open Application Manager
- Click on the app you want to hide
- Press 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 Huawei Y7p, which is the home page? From then on, you will be able to perform a very easy manipulation, we present it to you just after, in the event that you want to learn how to hide messages on Huawei Y7p, feel free to take a look at our article.
- Go to the home screen
- Long press on the app that you want to hide
- A dialog window will open: click on the button " Supprimer »
Now the app that you removed from your home screen will be accessible only through the search menu.
How to hide an application on your Huawei Y7p using a third-party application
To hide an application on your Huawei Y7p, you will need to download and use a » launcher "Able to personalize your device as you see fit, but also a" app hider »Able to camouflage and hide any applications.
Hide an application on your Huawei Y7p using a Launcher
If you have downloaded an application, the fastest and easiest solution to hide it on your Huawei Y7p 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 used you will find the application Nova Launcher . This is available in free or paid version. It will allow you to change your home screen by 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 Huawei Y7p :
- Download the app using Google Play Store .
- Configure the app as the default Launcher .
- Open your app drawer .
- Make a long press on an application that you want to configure and hide.
- Press on " Edit "
- Give it the name you want then press » finish "
- Tap the icon of the application to edit it in turn.
In the paid version, Nova Launcher allows you to hide the applications of your Huawei Y7p by removing them from the application list. 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 a Huawei Y7p:
- Go to the " Nova settings "
- Click on the option » Drawers »
- Press on " Hide applications »
- Choose applications present on your Huawei Y7p that you want to hide.
Hide an app on a Huawei Y7p using App Hider
Making applications inaccessible by other applications is also the objective that has been set App hider . This has been developed to hide the applications on the screen of your Huawei Y7p by adding additional security: a password . Very useful for people who want to dig into every nook and cranny of your smartphone. This is how to use this app:
- Download the app on Google Play Store .
- Launch the application App Hider.
- Press the + icon to choose one or more apps to hide and click » 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 Huawei Y7p. In this context:
- Access the menu of the App Hider application.
- Press on " Set up PIN now »And enter a password.
- When you launch the Calculator + app , if 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!
If you want as many tutorials as possible to become the absolute master of the Huawei Y7p, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Huawei Y7P.
