Whatever your reason for wanting to protect your Motorola Moto G42 from outside eyes, it's your privacy and it's up to you how you want to manage it. There are a lot of applications for mobile phones and it may happen that you do not want your loved ones to know everything you do with your smartphone.
We are going to show you in this guide how to hide an application icon on Motorola Moto G42? In this context, first, we will teach you, how to hide the logo of an application preinstalled on your Motorola Moto G42, after that, how to hide the icon of an application on your smartphone using a dedicated application called launcher.
How to hide the logo of an application preinstalled on Motorola Moto G42?
We therefore begin the first part of our article, as we told you, it is absolutely logical that you need to manage your private garden as you see fit, and therefore, your Motorola Moto G42. Whether it's for privacy concerns, as we'll see in the next section of this article, or just because you're being meticulous, there are various possibilities for hide the logo of an application on your Motorola Moto G42, we will first learn how to do it with a preinstalled application.
It has always been complicated on the phone to delete native applications, in fact, they were impossible to access because of 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for the operation of the mobile phone or they were linked to contracts or exclusivities and therefore could not be withdrawn. Now Android has it well integrated, if a user doesn't want to use an application he won't, so it's easier to remove it if it gets in the way . You are going to do this power deactivate an application on your Motorola Moto G42. This is precisely what we will now explain to you:
- Go to the "Settings" of your smartphone
- Click on the "Applications" menu
- In the list, find the app whose logo you want to hide
- Click on it
- You will now very easily have to click on "Disable" at the bottom left of your screen and confirm the procedure
Be careful however, in the event that this application is associated with or is essential for the proper functioning of certain applications, this risks disrupting their operation. Also note that to use it you will have to do the procedure and reverse it and reactivate it so that it is again accessible on your Motorola Moto G42. You can obviously do the same thing with a classic application, but your smartphone will offer to uninstall it, which is why you will have to go through the next part of this article for the rest of your apps.
How to hide an app icon on your Motorola Moto G42 using a launcher?
Second option, we will now reveal the technique to you in the event that you want hide any application on your Motorola Moto G42 , 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 visual 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 steps below:
- Go to the Google Play Store
- Download and install Apex Launcher , which in our opinion is one of the best Launcher for your Motorola Moto G42
- Launch the app and accept all permissions requested by your smartphone
- Go to the application settings
- Click on the menu "Hidden Apps" , all you have to do is click on all the applications whose logo you want to hide on your Motorola Moto G42
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