Today our smartphone applications are full of personal and sometimes even confidential data. And unfortunately, it could happen that you lend your LG G6 to someone you trust without being sure that they will not go and take a look at the content of the applications on your smartphone. This is why, in order not to risk this kind of disappointment, the best solution is to hide an application on your LG G6 . First, we will find out how to hide an application on an LG G6 through the settings of the smartphone. And then we will find out how to hide an application on your LG G6 using a specific application.
How to hide an app on LG G6 using Settings
Disable applications already installed on your LG G6
There are a lot of applications that are installed that are not of much use. If you do not use 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 in question. In this case, how to hide an application on your LG G6 by uninstalling it:
- Open the " Settings »
- Choose " 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 only want to hide an application on the most visible space of your LG G6, which is the home page? In this specific case, you will be able to accomplish a very simple manipulation, we present it to you right after, if you ever want to learn how to hide messages on LG G6, feel free to take a look at our guide.
- Go to the home screen
- Long press the app logo that you want to hide
- A dialogue window will open: press the button " Supprimer »
Now the application that you removed from your home screen will be accessible only through the search menu.
How to hide an app on your LG G6 using a specific app
To hide an application on your LG G6, you will have to download and use a » launcher "Able to personalize your device as you want, or a" app hider »Which gives the possibility to camouflage and hide any applications.
Hide an application on your LG G6 using a Launcher
When you've downloaded an app, the fastest and easiest solution to hide it on your LG G6 will be to download a » launcher »Or in other words an application launcher that will allow you to customize your smartphone. Among the most popular there is 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, for that you will have to install it first and configure it as the default launcher.
Discover how to use Nova Launcher in free version to hide an application on your LG G6 :
- 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 manage and hide.
- Press on " Edit "
- Give it the name you want then press » finish "
- Tap 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 LG G6 by deleting them from the list of applications. To use it, 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 LG G6:
- See you in the » Nova settings "
- Choose the option » Drawers »
- Press on " Hide applications »
- Click on the applications present on your LG G6 that you want to hide.
Hide an app on LG G6 using App Hider
Camouflaging applications by other applications is also the objective that App hider . This has been developed to hide the applications on the screen of your LG G6 by adding additional security: a password . Very practical for people who want to search 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 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 additionally hide the App Hider application as a calculator under the name Calculator +. In this way, your application will be even better to hide on your LG G6. For that:
- Go to the menu of the App Hider application.
- Press on " Set up PIN now »And enter a password.
- By the time you launch the Calculator + app , if you dial the PIN code, the normal application will open. If no PIN code is entered, the app will open like a real calculator!
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