No matter what reason makes you want to protect your Xiaomi Poco M5 from outside eyes, it's your privacy and it's up to you how you want to manage it. There are a lot of mobile phone apps and you might not want your friends to know about everything you do with your mobile phone.
We are going to show you today how to hide an app icon on Xiaomi Poco M5? In this context, first, we will teach you, how to hide the logo of an application preinstalled on your Xiaomi Poco M5, then, how to hide the icon of an application on your mobile phone at using a specific application called launcher.
How to hide the logo of a preinstalled app on Xiaomi Poco M5?
We therefore begin the first part of our article, as we explained to you, it is absolutely normal that you need to organize your private garden as you see fit, and therefore, your Xiaomi Poco M5. Whether you want to protect your privacy, as we will see in the next section of this tutorial, or for organizational reasons, there are various solutions for hide the logo of an application on your Xiaomi Poco M5, we will first learn how to do it with a preinstalled application.
It has long been problematic on a phone to remove native applications, in fact, they were protected by the operating system because either they were essential to the operation of the phone or they were linked to contracts or exclusivities and therefore could not not be removed. Now Android has it well integrated, in the event that a user doesn't want to use an app they won't, as much as they can remove it in the event that it is of no use to you. You are going to do this power deactivate an application on your Xiaomi Poco M5. This is precisely what we will now show 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
- 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, in the event that this application is linked or is necessary for the proper functioning of certain applications, this may disrupt their operation. Also note that to use it you will have to do the reverse procedure and reactivate it so that it is available again on your Xiaomi Poco M5. You can of course do the same procedure 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 tutorial for the rest of your apps.
How to hide an app icon on your Xiaomi Poco M5 using a launcher?
Second option, we will now reveal the solution to you in the event that you want hide any app on your Xiaomi Poco M5 , for this we will have to use a specific application that is more commonly called a launcher. This type of applications are actually tools that allow you to change the look of your operating system, they are also particularly useful for personalizing your Android user experience as much as possible. To learn how to do it, apply the following procedure:
- Go to the Google Play Store
- Download and install Apex Launcher , which in our opinion is one of the best Launcher for your Xiaomi Poco M5
- Open the app and accept all permissions requested by your mobile phone
- Go to the app 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 Xiaomi Poco M5
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