No matter what makes you want to protect your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge from the outside world, it's your personal life 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 might not want your friends to know about everything you do with your mobile phone.
In this guide, we will explain to you how to hide an app icon on Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge? For this, to begin with, we will show you, how to hide the logo of an application preinstalled on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, and after, how to hide the icon of an application on your mobile phone using a dedicated application called a launcher.
How to hide the logo of an app preinstalled on Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge?
We will therefore start the first part of our article, as we told you, it is quite logical that you want to manage your private garden according to your preferences, and therefore, your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. Whether you want to protect your privacy, as we will discover in the next part of this article, or for organizational reasons, there are several alternatives for hide the logo of an application on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, we will first find out how to do it with a preinstalled application.
It has long been problematic on a smartphone to remove native applications, indeed, they were protected by the operating system since they were either essential to the operation of the smartphone or they were linked to contracts or exclusives and therefore could not not be withdrawn. Now Android has integrated it well, in the event that a user does not want to use an application they will not, so it is easier to remove it in the event that it does not useless. You are going to do this power deactivate an application on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. This is exactly what we will now explain to you:
- Go to the "Settings" of your mobile phone
- Go to the "Applications" menu
- In the list, find the application whose logo you want to hide
- Press it
- You will now simply have to press "Disable" at the bottom left of your screen and confirm the manipulation
Be careful, however, in the event that this application is linked to or is essential for the proper functioning of certain applications, this may interfere with their operation. Also note that to use it you will have to perform the procedure and reverse and reactivate it so that it is again accessible on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. You can of course do the same technique 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 article for the rest of your applications.
How to hide the icon of an app on my Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge using a launcher?
Second option, we will now show you the solution in the event that you wish hide any application on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge , for that we will have to use a dedicated application better known under the name of launcher. This kind of applications are actually 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 find out how to do it, follow the technique below:
- 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 S6 Edge
- 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 Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
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