Whatever your reason for wanting to protect your Vivo Y21 from the outside world, it's your privacy and how you want to manage it is up to you. There are a lot of applications for mobile phones and sometimes you don't want those around you to know about everything you do with your smartphone.
In this guide, we are going to show you precisely how to hide app icon on Vivo Y21? In this context, first of all, we will show you, how to hide the logo of an application preinstalled on your Vivo Y21, after that, how to hide the icon of an application on your smartphone using a dedicated application called a launcher.
How to hide the logo of a preinstalled application on Vivo Y21?
So we are starting the first section of our guide, as we explained to you, it is completely normal that you want to organize your personal space according to your preferences, and therefore, your Vivo Y21. Whether for privacy concerns, as we will see in the next section of this tutorial, or simply for organizational concerns, there are different methods for hide the logo of an application on your Vivo Y21, we will first find out how to do it with a preinstalled application.
It has always been complicated on the phone to delete pre-installed applications, in fact, they were impossible to access because of the operating system because either they were essential for the proper functioning of the mobile phone or they were linked to contracts or exclusivities. and therefore could not be removed. Now, Android has understood this 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 is of no use to you. You will in this frame be able disable an app on your Vivo Y21. This is exactly what we will now reveal to 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
- Press it
- You will now very simply have to press "Disable" at the bottom left of your screen and confirm the process
Be careful though, if this application is associated with or is essential for the proper functioning of certain applications, this may disturb their operation. Also note that to use it you will have to do the reverse methodology and reactivate it so that it is available again on your Vivo Y21. You can of course do the same technique with a classic application, but your device will offer to uninstall it, which is why you will have to go through the next section of this guide for the rest of your apps.
How to hide an app icon on your Vivo Y21 using a launcher?
Second solution, we will now present the technique to you if you wish hide any app on your Vivo Y21 , 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 particularly useful to personalize your Android user experience as much as possible. To find out how to do it, apply the technique below:
- Go to the Google Play Store
- Download and install Apex Launcher , which in our opinion is one of the best Launcher for your Vivo Y21
- Open the app and accept all permissions requested by your smartphone
- 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 Vivo Y21
In the event that you want a maximum of tutorials to become the king of the Vivo Y21, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Live Y21.
