Samsung continues it's mission to bring bigger phones in 2013. The Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 -Galaxy Mega 6.3 are latest devices to fill the array of 'phablet' devices. Mega Smartphone has one of the distinctive touchwiz features - Multi window Sidebar. Not all users are fond of the 'ugly' sidebar and here's how you can get rid of sidebar on Samsung Galaxy Mega. The bar is usually docked to the left or right of your screen and read following steps to hide it.
Disable Multi window Sidebar
The Mega series has Android jellybean 4.2.2 and it follows the same convention. There are 2 ways to get rid of the sidebar. In 4.1.1, Samsung didn't include any option to disable the feature but 4.1.2 os update came up with a new option in the notifications bar.
Touch and Hold the back button
Easiest way to hide the sidebar is touch and hold back button of your Galaxy Mega. Hold the back button for 2 seconds and you can see the docked bar. You can follow same steps to enable the feature in again. This is 'soft' way to hide/ unhide the sidebar.
Notification panel
Now we can move to the disable it. Just go to notification panel and check out some of the shortcuts present at the top. You will be able to see an option called 'Multi-window'. Just uncheck it and you have completely disabled the multi-window sidebar.
This trick works for all the galaxy devices which exclusively feature the sidebar.
Samsung continues it's mission to bring bigger phones in 2013. The Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 -Galaxy Mega 6.3 are latest devices to fill the array of 'phablet' devices. Mega Smartphone has one of the distinctive touchwiz features - Multi window Sidebar. Not all users are fond of the 'ugly' sidebar and here's how you can get rid of sidebar on Samsung Galaxy Mega. The bar is usually docked to the left or right of your screen and read following steps to hide it.
Disable Multi window Sidebar
The Mega series has Android jellybean 4.2.2 and it follows the same convention. There are 2 ways to get rid of the sidebar. In 4.1.1, Samsung didn't include any option to disable the feature but 4.1.2 os update came up with a new option in the notifications bar.
Touch and Hold the back button
Easiest way to hide the sidebar is touch and hold back button of your Galaxy Mega. Hold the back button for 2 seconds and you can see the docked bar. You can follow same steps to enable the feature in again. This is 'soft' way to hide/ unhide the sidebar.
Notification panel
Now we can move to the disable it. Just go to notification panel and check out some of the shortcuts present at the top. You will be able to see an option called 'Multi-window'. Just uncheck it and you have completely disabled the multi-window sidebar.
This trick works for all the galaxy devices which exclusively feature the sidebar.
