Until a couple of years ago to hide an application from your smartphone it was necessary to jailbreak the device, both in Android and iOS devices.Now it is different.The restrictions are much less and users can make an app disappear from the drawer without having to resort to extreme solutions.But simply using tools already on the device.
In Android smartphones in some cases it is necessary to hide applications.Especially if you buy a branded device, or sold by a telephone operator.In such cases, unnecessary applications are installed in the smartphone, but which cannot be eliminated.Which are added to the apps made directly by the producers.They too quite useless (except rare exceptions) and which cannot be eliminated.The only possible solution is to hide these applications.To do this, there are a few minutes and the solutions available are many.Here's how to hide an app on Android and iOS smartphones.
Hide an application on Android
There are two solution to make the icon of an application disappear from your drawer.The first is simpler, but it only works with the Bloatware, or the pre-installed apps on the smartphone.The second, on the other hand, is a little more complicated but allows you to hide any unwanted application.Let's go in order and start with the first method.
To make a Bloatware disappear from the smartphone, just enter the Android smartphone settings.Then you have to press on apps and you will access the list with all the applications installed on the smartphone.At this point you have to slide down until the offending app is found, press on its name and touch on deactivate.A couple of pop-ups will appear that they will ask you if you are sure of what you are doing and in the end the application will be hidden and cannot even be activated in the background.
The procedure just seen is very simple, but cannot be used with most applications.For example, if we want to hide a video game, we will not be able to do it.In these cases, another app on the Google Play Store arrives in our rescue.Let's talk about Apex Launcher.As can be guessed by the name is a launcher for Android that in addition to changing the graphic interface of the smartphone adds some features.Including the possibility of hiding an application.After installing the Launcher, you will have to enter the Apex settings and access the Dawer Settings section.From the various options you will have to choose hide apps.At this point the list will open with all the applications installed and you can choose which one wants to make the smartphone disappear.
How to hide a iOS application
On the iPhone there is no real function that allows you to hide an application from the home of the device.But thanks to a simple trick it is possible to make some unwanted apps disappear.The first step to do is create a folder on the home.At this point we have to move within this new folder all the useless apps that we want to remove from the drawer app.In this way the apps will be hidden from the iPhone home and there will be no hindrance while we use the smartphone.