Check each app you want to hide from your home screen here.

Are there apps on your machine that you want to keep private?

If so, it’s easy to hide both stock and user-installed apps on your Samsung Galaxy phone.

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We’ll show you how to do that using a built-in feature.

Once you hide an app, it disappears from your app drawer and home screen.

However, it’ll still show up in yourphone’s prefs app.

Select “Settings” in the bottom-right corner.

There, tap and hold any blank space.

In the menu that opens, tap “prefs.”

When the options page opens, scroll down and tap “Hide Apps.”

Choose “Hide Apps” in the menu.

You’ll see a “Select Apps” screen.

Here, choose the apps you’d like to hide by tapping them.

When you’ve made your selections, tap “Done.”

Select the app(s) to hide and tap “Done."

And that’s it.

Yourchosen apps are now hidden.

That’s all there is to it.

Select the app(s) to unhide and tap “Done."

For even more privacy when sharing your phone with others, trylocking an app on your Android gear.

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