Depending on how you use your phone, you may accept noticed your cachet bar is a bit awash due to assorted icons actuality enabled. While some icons accomplish faculty to have, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, the VPN key figure can be redundant, abnormally if the app uses a notification. Good thing, there is a way to get rid of the icon.
With the advice of an alarming app, you can now abolish the VPN figure from your cachet bar. Since alike the hidden hidden System UI Tuner card won't let you attenuate the icon, a workaround is needed. Thankfully, Developer Zachary Wandar has an app that can break this botheration and let you abolish any cachet bar icon, all after the charge to basis your device.
Step 1: Download SystemUI Tuner
First, download the app SystemUI Tuner from developer Zachary Wandar. We are no drifter to Zachary's work, as we advanced accent addition app he created alleged Nacho Notch. The app is accessible for chargeless on the Play Store, and you can acquisition it application the articulation below.
- Play Store Link: SystemUI Tuner (free)
Step 2: Install ADB on Your Computer
For the app to work, it needs to be accepted appropriate permissions. However, clashing the permission which Android prompts you to allow, these animated permissions charge be issued application an ADB command.
ADB can be alarming as it requires the use of a specific affairs on your computer, and you accept to accredit a hidden advantage on your phone. Because of this, we created a absolute step-by-step tutorial on how to use ADB, so that aloft completion, you will able to ascribe your aboriginal command. Check out the articulation beneath for added information.
- More Info: How to Install ADB & Fastboot on Mac, Linux & Windows
Step 3: Accessible a Command Alert in the Appropriate Directory
Next, affix your phone to your computer with a USB cable. From there, you'll charge to locate the "platform-tools" binder central of your ADB accession directory. Since this folder's area can vary, chase your computer's adamantine drive for "platform-tools."
Once you've begin the platform-tools folder, you'll charge to archetype its abounding area path. On Windows (and best Linux builds), this is as simple as beat the abode bar at the top of the charlatan window, again artful the area from there (right-click –> "Select All" –> "Copy"). For Mac users, accessible the platform-tools binder in Finder, columnist cmd+opt+p to affectation the aisle area of the folder, again right-click the "platform-tools" at the basal of the window and accept "Copy as Pathname."
Now, accessible a command alert or Terminal window. On Windows, columnist the Windows key on your keyboard, blazon "cmd," again hit enter. On Linux or Mac, artlessly accessible "Terminal" from your Applications folder.
With the command alert open, blazon in "cd" (without the quotes), followed by a space, again hit ctrl+v (or cmd+v) to adhesive in the platform-tools binder area you affected earlier. In the end, the command should attending agnate to the one beneath (except you'll apparently accept a altered binder location), so if it does, go advanced and hit admission on your keyboard so that the command window will be operating in the appropriate directory.
Step 4: Accredit the App Application ADB
Now that you accept the command alert boxlike away, ascribe the afterward command:
adb carapace pm admission com.zacharee1.systemuituner android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGSIf you accept an absurdity and you're application Mac, Linux, or Windows PowerShell, add a aeon and a carve to the alpha of the aloft command, or artlessly archetype the one below:
./adb carapace pm admission com.zacharee1.systemuituner android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGSIf neither of these commands formed for you, there's a botheration with your ADB installation. Refer aback to the adviser affiliated out in Step 2 to get things boxlike away.
Step 5: Hide the VPN Figure & Test Out the Change
Now you can abstract your phone from your computer. Accessible the SystemUI Tuner app and go through the antecedent bureaucracy menus. Towards the end of these menus, you'll see a alert allurement if you appetite to abide after acceding one of the two alternative permissions. Because you've accepted the one that affairs for removing the VPN icon, baddest "Yes" to admission the capital menu. From there, tap "To the tweaks!"
On the capital menu, accept "Status Bar," again annal bottomward and locate "VPN Icon" and tap the toggle to attenuate it. You accept auspiciously hidden the VPN icon.
To ensure it worked, accessible your VPN app of best and authorize a affiliation to its server. The "key icon," which is usually on the appropriate ancillary of the cachet bar, should no best appear, advertence you've auspiciously hidden the icon. At this point, you can alike uninstall the SystemUI Tuner app and the VPN figure will still abide hidden.
If you skimmed over the app's agreement and conditions, there are few things declared by the developer you should be acquainted of. First, this app will not assignment on TouchWiz-based accessories active Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Additionally, modifying any of the cachet bar icons on TouchWiz-based accessories active Android 7.0 Nougat can account crashes to occur. Therefore, those application earlier Samsung accessories should be acquainted of this issue. Finally, Huawei and Xiaomi accessories are acceptable to not work.
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