How to hide apps on your Android phone

Everyone tries to get personal information by accessing their mobile. Users want their acquaintances to be unable to access their personal data from the icons of social media apps on the home screen or dryer. Each and every smartphone maker of Android smartphone lets its users remove shortcuts for apps from the home screen or dryer.

Let's look at how to remove apps' icons from the home screen in the smartphones of some companies.

Samsung

Samsung has also introduced an application called Secure Folder for this work. With this app (click here to download) users can create a separate version of the app in the Secure folder.

That is, the content stored in the Secure Folder app and on the outside home screen will be completely different. Secure folders can be protected with a PIN, password, or pattern. Secure folders can also protect files and media.

You can also remove app icons from the home screen from Settings> Display> Home screen> Hide apps, but remember that apps like these will only be removed from the home screen or dryer.

The app will still be available in the search results or list of applications.

LG

LG can hide apps from the Home screen from Settings> Display> Home screen> Hide apps. Some Android brands, including LG, have the option to hide apps from within the interface. This requires you to use the Hide apps option in the Home screen or App Dryer settings.

HTC

The new HTCU11 and other HTC phones have been introduced with the Sun interface but they also have the feature of hiding apps. For this you need to tap on the three dots mark on the Apps screen. Then tap on Show / hide apps. From here you can hide different applications or display hidden applications.

In addition, various Android launchers, such as Nova Launcher, also allow you to hide or display home screen applications in your Android phone.