Removing status bar icons...

[antiochasylum]

Google introduced a status bar icon editor back in developer previews of 8.0, yet seemed to have vanished from public release.

This is the menu where you used to hold the gear icon on the status bar, it would spin and unlock the editor.

For this, you can use any "activity launcher" however I will explain using Nova.

Long press on the home screen.
Select widgets.
Then you'll see "Activies" - press this.
Scroll down to "System UI" - touch it. You'll then see "Demo mode"(3rd option down) - touch this and a little wrench will appear on your home screen.

Press it. You'll see the status bar editor open up. Select status bar, and turn off the icons you want removed.

After this, reboot. And they will be gone.

I have Bluetooth, Alarm Clock, and signal bars all removed. Makes the status bar just clean and neat.

Give it a try!

ENJOY!

 

[omniphil]

This is a great hidden find, unfortunately I wasn't able to remove the battery icon.... I don't need that with percentage showing.

 

[ajsmsg78]

Didn't work on my Global version. I can unselect then but after rebooting they are all still there.

 

[antiochasylum]

Didn't work on my Global version. I can unselect then but after rebooting they are all still there.

I'm using the global version, and it works great on mine and another buddies of mine.

What version software do you have?

 

[AhsanU]

Only WiFi seems to disappear for me. Other icons just reappear on my global variant of the Mate 20 X. But thank you for the guide regardless.

Also wish the performance mode icon could be hidden, but that's not even an option.

Sigh, if we could just get near stock Android + sprinkles of EMUI customisations, I'd be so happy.. I love the hardware, camera, overall feel of the Mate 20 X but keep finding myself playing with my 6T and Pixel 2 XL because the software is a tough pill to swallow on the Huawei phone.

 

[ajsmsg78]

I'm using the global version, and it works great on mine and another buddies of mine.

What version software do you have?

9.0.0.127

 

[beef_lover]

Seems like some toggles work, while some others don't :/
Would love to hide the VoLTE icon on the status bar. Or some way to rearrange the ordering if possible.

Edit: Just realized I can simply turn off VoLTE in the mobile networks settings (since I don't use it) to remove the icon.

 

[barcaloney10]

can u explain 1 2 3

 

[barcaloney10]

how i can remove eye comfort and volte?

how i can remove eye comfort and volte?

 

[AllanRSS]

Wow, I was really excited about this, but my phone automatically overrides it at boot. I think I can see it for a split second before it reverts, but it might just be populating the icons.

Anybody know more about this?

 

[daveparki]

I am using lawn chair V2 launcher and although you can't hide icons you can set it to hide the whole status bar, very clean and to see the bar you just pull down from the top of the screen