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Make Google Play Games Profile Public or Private on HTC One M8

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Hello and welcome to VisiHow. This is a tutorial on how to hide or make public your game profile in the Play Games application on an HTC One M8.

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To begin, turn the phone on by pressing the power button located at the top of the phone
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Once the phone has been activated, we will see the lock screen.

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To unlock the screen, swipe the phone upwards
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Once the phone has been unlocked, we'll see the home screen. At the bottom, we'll see five icons. We now need to open the applications folder.

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We can do that by tapping the icon in the middle, at the bottom of the screen
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There is a grid of white dots. This is the icon for the applications folder.
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In this folder, we now need to find the Play Games application
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There's an icon of a green computer console controller and underneath it says "Play Games". Your Play Games applications may be in a different position in this folder. Therefore, you'll need to find it. Once we've found it, we need to press down on it to enter the application.

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Once the application has loaded, we need the icon located in the top left-hand corner of the screen
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There are three white horizontal lines. Press down on this icon and it'll open up a menu.
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We want the option that says, "Settings"
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This will show our Settings menu.

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We want the first option, which says "Game Profile"
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Underneath it says "Public", in green. This indicates that "Public" is the option currently selected. Press on this section, and it'll open up a window that says "Game Profile Visibility", "You can make your level, XP, and favourite genres public. This information will be based on all games that you've played. Your Game Profile is currently public".
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Tap on the option of choice
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We have two options, to either stay public or hide. If we want to hide our profile so that we're not visible to everyone, then press down on the word "HIDE". It will then say "Your Game Profile has been updated".

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Under "Game Profile" it now says, "Hidden" in red writing
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To change it back, press down on it again.
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Press on "MAKE PUBLIC" to change it back
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Now anybody can see our game profile, there are no restrictions.
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This concludes the tutorial on how to hide or make public your game profile in the Play Games application on an HTC One M8
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