How to Hide Icons in Non-Stock Android’s Status Bar

First things first. Let’s talk about what the Status Bar is. The top of your Android phone’s main interface is separated into two defined areas: the Notification Bar and the Status Bar. The former is where all your notifications are housed as they come in, shown simply as icons to let you know there’s something that needs your attention. We’re not going to do anything to this “half” of the bar.

The Status Bar is where you’ll find status icons: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mobile network, battery, time, alarm, etc. The thing is, you may not need to see all these icons all the time. For example, on Samsung and LG phones, the NFC icons is always displayed when the service is on. This doesn’t make a lot of sense, because there’s nothing more to see here—unlike Wi-Fi or mobile data, there is no signal strength to be displayed. Unlike Bluetooth, there isn’t a connection status. It’s either on or off. Having an icon there all the time when it’s on is just silly and takes up a lot of space. 

This Guide is for Non-Stock Android devices if you are a Stock Android User Check here for Using System UI Tuner on Stock Android Tutorial

Accessing and Using the System UI Tuner on Other Android Variants

Using the System UI Tuner on non-stock devices is a little bit more complicated, but it still isn’t hard to do. Just know that it if you’re not using a rooted handset, the process will require some adb commands. Don’t worry, though. It’s really easy and everything is covered in detail in our guide.

Once you have that set up, everything else is smooth sailing. Fire up the “System UI Tuner” app, and then open the menu at the top left to get started.

In the menu, choose the “Status Bar” option. Just like on stock Android, you can run through and enable or disable whatever you like. These changes should all happen in real-time, so if you’re not into how something looks, you can easily change it back.

 

Finally, you can get rid of that pesky NFC icon. Congratulations!

Source: HowToGeek