These days our smartphone apps are filled with personal and sometimes even confidential information. However, sometimes it happens that you lend your Nokia 6 to someone you trust without a guarantee that they will not peek into the content of the applications on your smartphone. Therefore, to avoid this, the best solution turns out to be to hide an application on your Nokia 6 . To begin with, we will see how to hide an application on a Nokia 6 through the settings of the smartphone. After that we will see how to hide an application on your Nokia 6 using a third party application.
How to hide an application on Nokia 6 using settings
Disable applications already installed on your Nokia 6
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 smartphone very easily, the best solution will be very easily to deactivate the application concerned. So, how to hide an application on your Nokia 6 by uninstalling it:
- Access the " Settings »
- Choose " Applications »
- Open Application Manager
- Select 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 Nokia 6, which is the home page? Therefore, you can perform a very simple technique, we present it to you right after, if you want to learn how to hide messages on Nokia 6, feel free to take a look at our article.
- Go to the home screen
- Long click on the app logo that you want to hide
- A dialogue window 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 Nokia 6 using a third-party application
To hide an application on your Nokia 6, you will need to download and use a » launcher "Able to personalize your device as you wish, or" app hider »Able to camouflage and hide any applications.
Hide an application on your Nokia 6 using a Launcher
Once you've downloaded an application, the fastest and easiest way to hide it on your Nokia 6 will be to download a » launcher », Which is also called an application launcher which will allow you to 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 by renaming names and changing icons of all your applications. However, in this context you will first have 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 Nokia 6 :
- Download the app using Google Play Store .
- Configure 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 paid version, Nova Launcher offers you the possibility of hiding the applications of your Nokia 6 by deleting them from the list of applications. To use them, you just have to go through search mode on your Android phone, or create a shortcut on Nova Launcher. So, how to completely hide applications on a Nokia 6:
- Go to the " Nova settings "
- Select the option » Drawers »
- Click on " Hide applications »
- Choose applications installed on your Nokia 6 that you want to hide.
Hide an app on a Nokia 6 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 Nokia 6 by adding additional security: a password . Very useful for anyone who would like 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.
- Click on the + icon to choose one or more apps to hide and press » importer "
- Then click on 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 +. This way your application will be even better to hide in your Nokia 6. For this:
- Go to the menu of the App Hider application.
- Click on " Set up PIN now »And enter a password.
- When 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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