Whatever your reason for wanting to protect your Pocophone M5s from the outside world, it's your privacy and it's up to you how you want to manage it. There are a large number of applications for telephones and it may happen that you do not want those around you to know about everything you do with your mobile phone.

In this guide, we are going to show you how to hide an app icon on Pocophone M5s? To do this, first of all, we are going to show you, how to hide the logo of a preinstalled application on your Pocophone M5s, then, then, how to hide the icon of an application on your mobile phone using a specific application called a launcher.

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How to hide the logo of a preinstalled application on Pocophone M5s?

So we start the first part of our article, as we explained to you, it is completely normal that you need to manage your personal space as you see fit, and suddenly, your Pocophone M5s. Whether you want to protect your privacy, as we will see in the next section of this tutorial, or simply for organizational reasons, there are different methods for hide the logo of an application on your Pocophone M5s, we will first find out how to do it with a preinstalled application.

It has long been problematic on a 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 suddenly could not be removed. Now Android has assimilated it well, if a user does not want to use an application he will not do so, so it is easier to remove it if it bothers him. You are going to be able to deactivate an application on your Pocophone M5s. This is exactly what we will now reveal to you:

  • Go to the "Settings" of your mobile phone
  • Go to the "Applications" menu
  • In the list, find the app whose logo you want to hide
  • Click on it
  • You will now simply have to press "Disable" at the bottom left of your screen and validate the process

Be careful, however, if this application is linked or is essential for the proper functioning of certain applications, it may disrupt their operation. Also note that to use it you will have to do the reverse and reactivate it so that it is available again on your Pocophone M5s. 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 section of this tutorial for the rest of your apps.

How to hide an app icon on your Pocophone M5s using a launcher?

Second option, we will now present the solution to you if you want hide any app on your Pocophone M5s , for that we will have to use a specific application which is more commonly called a launcher. These kinds of applications are actually tools that allow you to change 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 in our opinion is one of the best Launcher for your Pocophone M5s
  • Open the app and accept all permissions requested by your mobile phone
  • Go to the application settings
  • Click on the menu "Hidden Apps" , you will only have to click on all the applications whose logo you want to hide on your Pocophone M5s

In the event that you want as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the Pocophone M5s, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Pocophone M5s.