Regardless of your reason for wanting to protect your Huawei P10 from prying eyes, it's your privacy and it's up to you how you want to manage it. There are a lot of cell phone apps out there and there may be times when you don't want those around you to be aware of everything you do with your phone.

Today we will precisely teach you how to hide an application icon on Huawei P10? To do this, first, we will teach you how to hide the logo of an application preinstalled on your Huawei P10, and after, how to hide the icon of an application on your phone using a specific application called launcher.

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How to hide the logo of an application preinstalled on Huawei P10?

We start with the first part of our article, as we told you, it is completely normal that you want to manage your private garden as you see fit, and consequently, your Huawei P10. Whether it is for privacy concerns, as we will discover in the next section of this article, or simply for organizational reasons, there are various possibilities for hide the logo of an application on your Huawei P10, we will first learn how to do it with a preinstalled application.

It has long been problematic on a phone to remove native applications, in fact, they were protected by the operating system since they were either essential for the operation of the smartphone or they were linked to contracts or exclusives and by consequent could not be withdrawn. From now on, Android has integrated it well, if a user does not want to use an application he will not do so, as much as he can remove it if it is of no use to you. You go in this frame can deactivate an application on your Huawei P10. This is precisely what we will now explain 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
  • Press it
  • You will now simply have to click on "Disable" at the bottom left of your screen and validate the procedure

Be careful though, if this application is linked or is essential for the proper functioning of certain applications, it may disturb their operation. Note also that to use it you will have to perform the procedure and reverse and reactivate it so that it is again accessible on your Huawei P10. You can obviously do the same procedure with a classic application, but your smartphone will offer to uninstall it, which is why you will have to go through the next section of this tutorial for the rest of your applications.

How to hide the app icon on your Huawei P10 with a launcher?

Second solution, we will now present the solution to you if you want hide any application on your Huawei P10 , for this we will have to use a specific application that is more commonly called a launcher. This type of application is 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 procedure below:

  • Go to the Google Play Store
  • Download and install Apex Launcher , which in our opinion is one of the best Launcher for your Huawei P10
  • Open the app and accept all permissions requested by your phone
  • Go to the application settings
  • Click on the menu "Hidden Apps" , you will just have to click on all the applications whose logo you want to hide on your Huawei P10

If you want as many tutorials as possible to become the absolute master of the Huawei P10, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Huawei P10.