Today our smartphone applications are full of personal and sometimes even confidential data. Unfortunately, it sometimes happens that you lend your Sony Xperia L3 to someone you trust without being sure that they will not browse through the content of the applications on your smartphone. This is the reason why, to avoid this, the best solution is to hide an application on your Sony Xperia L3 . First, we will see how to hide an application on a Sony Xperia L3 using the smartphone settings. Then we will see how to hide an application on your Sony Xperia L3 using a third-party application.
How to hide an application on Sony Xperia L3 using settings
Disable the applications already installed on your Sony Xperia L3
There are many applications that are installed that are never used. 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. So, how to hide an application on your Sony Xperia L3 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
You simply want to hide an application on the most visible space of your Sony Xperia L3, which is the home page? In this situation, you can accomplish a very easy manipulation, we present it to you below, if you wish to discover how to hide messages on Sony Xperia L3, 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: 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 Sony Xperia L3 using a third-party application
To hide an application on your Sony Xperia L3, you will need to download and use a » launcher "Which allows you to personalize your device as you see fit, but also a" app hider »Able to camouflage and hide any applications.
Hide an application on your Sony Xperia L3 using a Launcher
If you have downloaded an application, the fastest and easiest solution to hide it on your Sony Xperia L3 will be to download an » launcher »Or in other words an application launcher that will allow you to customize your smartphone. Among the most popular you will find the application Nova Launcher . The latter is available in free or paid version. It allows you to change your home screen to renaming names and changing icons of all your applications. Having said that, for that 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 L3 :
- Download the app 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.
- 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 of your Sony Xperia L3 by deleting them from the list of applications. To use them, you just have to go through search mode on your Android smartphone, or create a shortcut on Nova Launcher. So, how to completely hide applications on a Sony Xperia L3:
- See you in the » Nova settings "
- Choose the option » Drawers »
- Click on " Hide applications »
- Click on the applications installed on your Sony Xperia L3 that you want to hide.
Hide an app on a Sony Xperia L3 using App Hider
Camouflaging applications by other applications is also the role that App hider . The latter was developed to hide the applications on the screen of your Sony Xperia L3 by adding additional security: a password . Very convenient for anyone who would like to search every nook and cranny of your smartphone. Here is below how to use this app:
- Download the app on Google Play Store .
- Launch the application App Hider.
- Click the + icon to select one or more apps to hide and press » 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 application will hide even better in your Sony Xperia L3. To do this:
- Access the menu of the App Hider application.
- Click 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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