How to permanently exclude apps from showing in the recents carousel?

[AC Question]

I have some apps, mainly chat and SMS ones, that I have installed a lock on. But when I press the "Recents" carousel they show up with a recent screenshot, easily legible, with recent contacts' info. I'd love to find a way to disable certain apps from showing up at all in this carousel...so that if I want to use them, I need to go to the app's icon and press.

I'm on a Samsung S6, Android version 6.0.1

Any help or suggestions would be great. Thank you!!

 

[Rukbat]

If you've run them recently, they'll show up. About all you can do is, when you close one, go to "recent accounts" and remove that app from that list. (Anything else would require that you rewrite Android.)