Whatever the reason that makes you want to protect your HUAWEI Mate Xs from outside eyes, it's your personal life and it's up to you how you want to manage it. There are a lot of phone apps out there and you might not want your friends to know about everything you do with your phone.
We are going to show you in this guide how to hide app icon on HUAWEI Mate Xs? To do this, to begin with, we will explain to you, how to hide the logo of an application preinstalled on your HUAWEI Mate Xs, after that, how to hide the icon of an application on your phone using a dedicated application called a launcher.
How to hide the logo of a preinstalled app on HUAWEI Mate Xs?
So we are starting the first section of our article, as we told you, it is absolutely normal that you want to organize your private garden as you see fit, and therefore, your HUAWEI Mate Xs. Whether you want to protect your privacy, as we will see in the next part of this tutorial, or for organizational reasons, there are several methods to hide the logo of an application on your HUAWEI Mate Xs, we will first learn how to do it with a preinstalled application.
It has always been complicated on the phone to delete pre-installed applications, in fact, they were protected by the operating system because either they were necessary for the operation of the mobile phone or they were linked to contracts or exclusivities and therefore could not be removed. From now on, Android has understood this well, if ever a user does not want to use an application he will not do so, so it is easier to remove it if it is of no use to you. You will in this frame be able deactivate an application on your HUAWEI Mate Xs. This is exactly what we will now present to you:
- Go to the "Settings" of your phone
- Click on the "Applications" menu
- In the list, find the application whose logo you want to hide
- Click on it
- You will now have to click on "Disable" at the bottom left of your screen and validate the manipulation
Be careful, however, if ever this application is linked or is essential to the proper functioning of certain applications, it may disrupt their operation. Also note that to use it you will have to perform the reverse methodology and reactivate it so that it is available again on your HUAWEI Mate Xs. You can of course do the same technique with a classic application, but your device will offer to uninstall it, which is why you will have to go through the next part of this tutorial for the rest of your apps.
How to hide an app icon on your HUAWEI Mate Xs using a launcher?
Second option, we will now present the solution to you if you ever want hide any app on your HUAWEI Mate Xs , for that we will have to use a dedicated application better known under the name of launcher. This kind of applications are in fact tools that allow you to change the look of your operating system, they are also really practical to personalize your Android user experience as much as possible. To learn how to do it, follow the technique that follow:
- Go to the Google Play Store
- Download and install Apex Launcher , which in our opinion is one of the best Launcher for your HUAWEI Mate Xs
- Open the app and accept all permissions requested by your phone
- Go to the app settings
- Click on the menu "Hidden Apps" , you will only have to select all the applications whose logo you want to hide on your HUAWEI Mate Xs
If you ever want a lot of tutorials to become the absolute master of the HUAWEI Mate Xs, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: HUAWEI Mate.
