How to remove Hot Games and Hot Apps from your Realme, Vivo and iQOO Smartphones

Get rid of Hot apps and Hot games bloatware from your phone's homescreen

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A good suggestion from either a friend or your smartphone always helps. In some smartphones, these suggestions are displayed as Hot Apps and Hot Games. As good as they feel sometimes, most of the time they are annoying, interrupting, and breaking away from our attention.

To get rid of these Hot Apps and Hot Games permanently, there are some steps you can follow on your Realme, iQOO and Vivo smartphone. There are very few brands that come with bloatware brands like that pre-installed. Let’s get into it and see how to remove Hot Games and Hot Apps from your smartphone.

How to disable Hot Apps on Realme smartphones

Realme is one of the brands that came in late and is progressing way too fast in the Indian smartphone market. Whether be it for budget smartphones or challenging flagship killers, Realme is giving tough competition to every brand out there.

But the bloatware apps like Hot Apps, the overall experience becomes tasteless. Let’s see how we can fix that:

  1. Go to settings in your menu.
  2. Select ‘System Apps’ which will display a list of pre-installed apps.
  3. Select the ‘App Market’
  4. Toggle the ‘Home screen’ folder for popular apps off.

After this, you won’t see any bloatware lingering on the home page of your smartphone.

How to disable Hot Apps and Hot Games on Vivo and iQOO smartphones

One of the most popular Chinese smartphone brands in India. With flagship phones like the Vivo X30 series and Vivo V17, Vivo is rising in popularity charts. Showing its popularity in every segment, Vivo phones are also filled with bloatware apps.

Let’s see how we can remove them in simple steps

  1. Select the V Appstore on your Vivo smartphone.
  2. Open the Tools options in the app, and choose ‘Settings’.
  3. You can find the toggle here to disable the ‘Hot Apps and Games on your home screen’ option.
  4. A pop-up message shows up to confirm your decision. Click on cancel.

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