Whatever your reason for wanting to protect your Samsung Galaxy S21 from the outside world, it's your privacy and it's up to you how you want to manage it. There are a lot of applications for smartphones and sometimes you don't want those around you to know about everything you do with your smartphone.
Today we are going to explain to you how to hide an app icon on Samsung Galaxy S21? To do this, first, we will show you, how to hide the logo of a preinstalled application on your Samsung Galaxy S21, then, then, how to hide the icon of an application on your smartphone using a dedicated application called launcher.
How to hide the logo of an app preinstalled on Samsung Galaxy S21?
So we are starting the first part of our guide, as we explained to you, it is absolutely logical that you need to organize your private garden as you see fit, and therefore, your Samsung Galaxy S21. Whether you want to protect your privacy, as we will see in the next section of this article, or simply for organizational reasons, there are different solutions for hide the logo of an application on your Samsung Galaxy S21, we will first find out how to do it with a preinstalled application.
It has always been complicated on the phone to delete native applications, indeed, they were impossible to access because of the operating system since either they were essential to the operation of the smartphone or they were linked to contracts or exclusivities and therefore could not be removed. Now, Android has assimilated 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 will in this frame be able deactivate an application on your Samsung Galaxy S21. This is exactly what we will now show you:
- Go to the "Settings" of your smartphone
- Go to the "Applications" menu
- In the list, find the application whose logo you want to hide
- Click on it
- You will now very easily have to press "Disable" at the bottom left of your screen and confirm the procedure
Be careful despite everything, in the event that this application is linked or is essential to the proper functioning of certain applications, this may disturb their operation. Also note that to use it you will have to perform the reverse procedure and reactivate it so that it is accessible again on your Samsung Galaxy S21. You can of course do the same technique with a classic application, but your phone 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 Samsung Galaxy S21 with a launcher?
Second solution, we are now going to reveal the technique to you in the event that you want hide any application on your Samsung Galaxy S21 , for this we will have to use a dedicated application that is more commonly called a launcher. This kind of applications are actually tools that allow you to modify the visual 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, apply the following technique:
- Go to the Google Play Store
- Download and install Apex Launcher , which according to us and one of the best Launcher for your Samsung Galaxy S21
- Launch the app and accept all permissions requested by your smartphone
- Go to the application settings
- Click on the menu "Hidden Apps" , you will just have to choose all the applications whose logo you want to hide on your Samsung Galaxy S21
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