Now our smartphone apps are full of personal and sometimes even confidential information. However, it sometimes happens that you lend your Sony Xperia 1 IV to a trusted person without guarantee that he will not take a look in the content of the applications on your smartphone. Therefore, to avoid this, the best solution is to hide an application on your Sony Xperia 1 IV . First, we will find out how to hide an application on a Sony Xperia 1 IV through the smartphone settings. Then then we will find out how to hide an application on your Sony Xperia 1 IV using a third-party application.
How to Hide an App on Sony Xperia 1 IV Using Settings
Disable applications already installed on your Sony Xperia 1 IV
There are a lot of apps installed that are not of much use. If you are not using an app and it bothers you visually or you just want to sort things out in your smartphone in a very simple way, the best solution will be in a very simple way to disable the affected app. Therefore, how to hide an application on your Sony Xperia 1 IV by uninstalling it:
- Access the " Settings »
- Select " Applications »
- Open Application Manager
- Click on the app you want to hide
- Click on " deactivate »
- Confirm your choice by clicking again on » deactivate »
Hide an app from your home page
You just want to hide an application on the most visible space of your Sony Xperia 1 IV which is the home page? From then on, you will be able to accomplish a very simple technique, we present it to you just after, in case you want to discover how to hide messages on Sony Xperia 1 IV, 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 dialog window will open: click on the button " Supprimer »
Now the app you removed from your home screen will only be accessible through the search menu.
How to hide an application on your Sony Xperia 1 IV using a third-party application
To hide an app on your Sony Xperia 1 IV, you will need to download and use a » launcher "Able to personalize your device as you see fit, but also a" app hider »Which gives the possibility to camouflage and hide any applications.
Hide an application on your Sony Xperia 1 IV using a Launcher
When you have downloaded an application, the fastest and easiest way to hide it on your Sony Xperia 1 IV 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 popular 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 Sony Xperia 1 IV :
- Download the app with 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.
- 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 the applications on your Sony Xperia 1 IV by deleting them from the application list. To use it, you just have to go through the search mode on your Android smartphone, or create a shortcut on Nova Launcher. So, how to totally hide apps on a Sony Xperia 1 IV:
- Go to the " Nova settings "
- Choose the option » Drawers »
- Click on " Hide applications »
- Select applications installed on your Sony Xperia 1 IV that you want to hide.
Hide an application on a Sony Xperia 1 IV with App Hider
Hiding applications by other applications is also the objective that App hider . This has been developed to hide the applications on the screen of your Sony Xperia 1 IV by adding additional security: a password . Very convenient for anyone who wants to search every corner of your smartphone. Here's how to use this app:
- Download the app on Google Play Store .
- Launch the application App Hider.
- Click on the + icon to select one or more apps to hide and click on » importer "
- Click 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 as Calculator+. This way your application will hide even better in your Sony Xperia 1 IV. For it:
- Access the menu of the App Hider application.
- Click on " Set up PIN now »And enter a password.
- When you launch the Calculator + app , in the event that 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!
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