Nowadays our mobile phone applications are full of private and sometimes even confidential information. However, it sometimes happens that you lend your Samsung Galaxy S21 to a trusted person without guarantee that he will not take a look at the content of the applications on your mobile phone. Therefore, to avoid this, the best solution is to hide an application on your Samsung Galaxy S21 . First of all, we will see how to hide an application on a Samsung Galaxy S21 through the mobile phone settings. Then we will see how to hide an application on your Samsung Galaxy S21 using a third-party application.
How to hide an app on Samsung Galaxy S21 using settings
Disable applications already installed on your Samsung Galaxy S21
Many applications that are installed are not of much use. If you are not using an application and it visually disturbs you or you simply want to sort out your mobile phone, the best solution will be simply to deactivate the application in question. In this case, how to hide an application on your Samsung Galaxy S21 by uninstalling it:
- Open 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
Do you only want to hide an application on the most visible space of your Samsung Galaxy S21, which is the home page? In this specific case, you can perform a very easy technique, we present it to you right after, if you want to discover how to hide messages on Samsung Galaxy S21, feel free to take a look at our article.
- Go to the home screen
- Long press the app logo 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 Samsung Galaxy S21 using a third-party app
To hide an application on your Samsung Galaxy S21, you will need to download and use a " launcher "Which allows you to personalize your device as you wish, or a" app hider »Able to camouflage and hide any applications.
Hide an application on your Samsung Galaxy S21 using a Launcher
If you have downloaded an app, the quickest and easiest way to hide it on your Samsung Galaxy S21 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 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 to 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 Samsung Galaxy S21 :
- Download the application using 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 edit it in turn.
In the paid version, Nova Launcher allows you to hide applications from your Samsung Galaxy S21 by deleting them from the application list. To use it you will not have to go through the search mode on your Android smartphone, or create a shortcut on Nova Launcher. So, how to hide apps entirely on a Samsung Galaxy S21:
- See you in the » Nova settings "
- Click on the option » Drawers »
- Click on " Hide applications »
- Click on the applications installed on your Samsung Galaxy S21 that you want to hide.
Hide an application on a Samsung Galaxy S21 with App Hider
Making applications inaccessible by other applications is also the objective that App hider . This has been developed to hide the applications on the screen of your Samsung Galaxy S21 by adding additional security: a password . Very practical for people who want to search every corner of your mobile phone. Find out 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 click on » importer "
- Then press 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 +. This way your app will hide even better in your Samsung Galaxy S21. For that:
- 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 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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