Nowadays our mobile phone applications are full of private and at times even confidential information. And unfortunately, you may lend your OPPO Find X5 to someone you trust with no guarantee that they won't snoop on the content of your mobile phone apps. This is the reason why, to avoid this, the best technique turns out to be to hide an application on your OPPO Find X5 . First of all, we will see how to hide an application on an OPPO Find X5 through the mobile phone settings. After that we will see how to hide an application on your OPPO Find X5 with a specific application.

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How to Hide an App on OPPO Find X5 Using Settings

Disable applications already installed on your OPPO Find X5

There are a lot of apps that are installed that are not of much use. In the event that you are not using an application and it bothers you visually or you want everything very easily to sort out your mobile phone, the best technique will be very simply to deactivate the application in question. In this situation, how to hide an application on your OPPO Find X5 by uninstalling it:

  • Open the "  Settings  »
  • Choose "  Applications  »
  • Open Application Manager
  • Select the app you want to hide
  • Press on "  deactivate  »
  • Confirm your choice by clicking again on » deactivate  »

Hide an app from your home page

Do you only want to hide an application on the most visible space of your OPPO Find X5 which is the home page? In this case, you will be able to perform a very simple technique, we present it to you below, in the event that you want to discover how to hide messages on OPPO Find X5, feel free to take a look at our guide.

  • Go to the home screen
  • Long press on the app 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 app on your OPPO Find X5 with a specific app

To hide an application on your OPPO Find X5, you will have to download and resort to a » launcher  "Which gives the possibility to personalize your device as you wish, or" app hider  »Able to camouflage and hide any applications.

Hide an application on your OPPO Find X5 using a Launcher

When you have downloaded an application, the fastest and easiest solution to hide it on your OPPO Find X5 will be to download a » launcher  », Which is also called an application launcher which will allow you to customize your mobile phone. Among the most famous you will find 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 apps. However, in this context you must first install it and set it as the default launcher.

Discover how to use Nova Launcher free version to hide an application on your OPPO Find X5 :

  • Download the application using Google Play Store .
  • Configure the app as the default Launcher .
  • Open your app drawer .
  • Press and hold 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 modify it in turn.

In the paid version, Nova Launcher allows you to hide applications from your OPPO Find X5 by deleting them from the application list. To use them you will not have to go through the search mode on your Android phone, or create a shortcut on Nova Launcher. So, how to hide apps entirely on an OPPO Find X5:

  • Go to the " Nova settings "
  • Click on the option » Drawers  »
  • Press on "  Hide applications  »
  • Select applications installed on your OPPO Find X5 that you want to hide.

Hide an application on an OPPO Find X5 using App Hider

Making applications inaccessible by other applications is also the objective that has been set App hider . The latter has been developed to hide the applications on the screen of your OPPO Find X5 by adding additional security: a password . Very convenient for anyone who wants to search every corner of your mobile phone. Here's how to use this app:

  • Download the app on Google Play Store .
  • Launch the application App Hider.
  • Press the + icon to select one or more apps to hide and click » importer "
  • Then press 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 as Calculator+. In this way, your application will be even better hidden in your OPPO Find X5. For that:

  • Access 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 , in the event that 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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