by Android mobile devices have been updated and renewed more and more to obtain multiple functions that benefit users, both for their personal and work lives.
The operating system developed by Alphabet (Google’s parent company) allows users to disable applications or leave them out, in order to have more privacy.
However, manufacturers can also hide applications, which may be running in the background, that is, the phone’s battery can run out faster. However, the gate Xataka Android It discloses different methods that allow you to find them and they are the following:
through the settings
Steps:
- Enter the ‘Settings’ section.
- Find and select the ‘Applications’ option.
- Review and uninstall those that the user considers unnecessary.
Through the app drawer
On different occasions the files that are sought are closer to the point of finding them on the desktop, specifically from the app drawer, i.e. the scrollable screen that appears when you swipe up on the home screen.
Now, when you enter this screen, you must press the three points in the upper right corner and access the ‘Sort’ option. Then, the user must press the ‘Hide apps on the Home and Apps screens’ section. To uninstall them, carry out the above process.
with special access
Steps:
- Enter the ‘Settings’ section.
- Find and select the ‘Applications’ option.
- Press the three dots located in the upper right part.
- Enter ‘Special access’.
- Identify the applications with the most privileges that they have on the cell phone.
Regarding the manual identification of damaged applications, the following steps can be carried out:
- Enter the Play Store.
- Click on the profile photo icon located in the upper right.
- Click on the ‘Manage devices and apps’ section.
- Then, click on the ‘General description’.
- Users will then see two options: ‘No harmful apps found’ or ‘Harmful apps found’.
- If the second option does not appear, click on the first and click on ‘Analyze’.
- Finally, Android will inform the user whether or not it has detected applications that may represent a problem for the device.
- In case one appears, it is recommended to delete them.
Applications to hide photos, videos and other files on the cell phone
The exchange of information through the different social networks with the possibility of chat or instant messaging applications such as WhatsApp, allows you to send videos, photographs or audios, which, in many cases, have no relevance and whose purpose is nothing more than contribute to the conversation at that time.
However, there are people who, through their mobile phones, share sensitive information in any format, Therefore, if it is discovered by someone unwanted, it could bring difficult consequences for whoever owns it.
In this sense, we talk about personal documents, backup copies, videos that contain a complaint and why not, intimate photos that users often share with someone they trust, so it is necessary for them to have applications that not only protect your cell phone from curious people, but help them make all these files invisible to the eyes of any prying eyes.
This is why in the different app stores there are some tools that allow you to hide any type of file and keep it secret. Here we share two of them:
Calculator#
Calculator# is available for iOS and Android devices and is one of the most recognized in the world. Its interface is the same as that of a boring calculator and works as such, allowing access if you type a password that the owner of the device has assigned.
Secret Calculator Vault
Secret Calculator Vault also allows you to hide other applications, contacts, media files or messages. It also pretends to be a boring calculator and once the user logs in they can distribute the files stored in folders or organize them however they want.
