Whatever reason makes you want to protect your Huawei P8 from prying eyes, it's your privacy and it's up to you to decide how you want to manage it. There are a lot of smartphone apps out there and you may not want those around you to know everything you do with your mobile phone.
We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to hide an application icon on Huawei P8? In this context, at first, we will teach you, how to hide the logo of an application preinstalled on your Huawei P8, after that, how to hide the icon of an application on your mobile phone using a dedicated application called launcher.
How to hide the logo of an application preinstalled on Huawei P8?
We will now start the first part of our article, as we explained to you, it is quite normal that you need to manage your private garden as you see fit, and suddenly, your Huawei P8. Whether you want to protect your privacy, as we will find out in the next part of this article, or just for the sake of organization, there are several methods to hide the logo of an application on your Huawei P8, we will first of all find out how to do it with a preinstalled application.
It has long been problematic on a smartphone to remove native applications, in fact, they were impossible to access because of the operating system because either they were necessary for the proper functioning of the mobile phone or they were linked to contracts or exclusives and therefore could not be withdrawn. From now on, Android has integrated it well, in the event that a user does not want to use an application, he will not do so, as much as he can remove it in the event that it bothers him. You are going to do this power deactivate an application on your Huawei P8. This is precisely what we will now show you:
- Go to the "Settings" of your mobile 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 confirm the procedure
Be careful though, in the event that this application is linked or is essential for the proper functioning of certain applications, this may disrupt their operation. You should also know that to use it you will have to do the procedure and reverse and reactivate it so that it is again accessible on your Huawei P8. You can of course do the same procedure with a classic application, but your mobile phone 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 applications.
How to hide the icon of an app on your Huawei P8 using a launcher?
Second option, we will now reveal the technique to you in the event that you wish hide any application on your Huawei P8 , for this 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 modify the look of your operating system, they are also really useful to personalize your Android user experience as much as possible. To find out how to do it, follow the steps below:
- Go to the Google Play Store
- Download and install Apex Launcher , which according to us and one of the best Launcher for your Huawei P8
- Launch the app and accept all permissions requested by your mobile phone
- Go to the application settings
- Click on the menu "Hidden Apps" , you will just have to select all the applications whose logo you want to hide on your Huawei P8.
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