How To Hide Photos In iPhone?

This is a little-known iPhone secret is that you can actually use to Hide photos and the videos in the Photos app. However, by doing so, it  will only hide them from your Moments, Years, and Collections view, as well any of the albums they appear in, but it will keep the photos and/or videos that are available in a new “Hidden” album.

While it would be a very nice idea if Apple could make this as a passcode-protected folder one day, it could still help you keep your eyes off the spicy media when you’re showing off the collections to your family and friends. In case you definitely want to keep a password on your content, you can use the other options.

In order to hide a photo or video, you have to first select it, and then use the share icon to bring up the share sheet. You may then scroll through the bottom row of activities until you start seeing the “Hide” option. You have to then Tap it, then the options “Hide Photo” or “Hide Video” to get the job done. In case you want to view your hidden media, you can just open the new “Hidden” folder which is in the “Albums” tab.

How To Hide Photos In Samsung Devices?

In case you have a Samsung phone which runs the Android Nougat 7.0 or above, you can take most of the advantage of the Samsung’s Secure Folder feature. This feature lets you keep all the private files, images, and even all the apps that are in a separate password-protected area.

If you want to set up Secure Folder for the first time in your samsung device, you have to go to Apps > Settings > Lock screen and then to the security > Secure Folder. You will now need to sign in with your Samsung account.

After signing in with your samsung account, your device will now prompt you to choose your preferred lock method. Once you complete this, the Secure Folder will be accessible from your Home and your Apps screen.

And to hide photos in the Secure Folder, you have to open the app and then tap to Add Files.

How To Hide Photos In iPad?

You can hide all the needed photos in the Private Photo Vault

The another popular photo hiding app is the Private Photo Vault, which lets you lock all your photos within the app using a PIN, TouchID or Face ID. The Pro version of this brings along with the pattern lock as well. This app also brings to you many cool features like the ability to import all the photos & videos that are from the local storage as well as in your iTunes. Private Photo Vault even includes a web browser that can be used to download the images directly to the it.

Private Photo Vault is also available in the free version and it also works perfectly fine, but in case you want to access to more unique features, you will have to upgrade it to Pro. Also, the Pro version of this app allows you to create unlimited albums and brings features like the wireless photo transfer, a decoy password, video support, break-in report via GPS &  the photos and much more.

Vault

This Vault app is just like the other photo hiding app, that basically lets you to import all your private photos and videos from your gallery. This app prompts you to delete all of those from storage right after importing to safeguard your privacy from nosy friends. You can also lock the app using a passcode or the Touch ID which usually makes use of the Face ID on al the newer iPhones and iPads, but you can also import photos and videos solely from the local storage of your device. However, you can also import photos from Safari, thanks to this Safari Import feature. Apart from that, this vault app also also has the Face Down Lock and also it has the Cloud Backup features as well.

While all these features are all available in the free version, there are also a myriad of premium features such as the 1TB private cloud storage upgrade, the break-in alerts with the photos and GPS info,  and the ability to disguise this app as a camera app & you can also create a fake vault available through the in-app purchases.

How to hide Photos In Your Redmi Devices?

How to hide the private images or files in Redmi Phone

You have to Select the images or files that you want to hide in your device:

Firstly, Select the images or files that you want to hide by marking it in the similar way like if you want to send or move one or more images. You may do it until the selection menu appears.

ii. Then Select ‘Hide’ option at the options that appear

You may then click Select > and More then > then Hide the files until you are prompted to enter a 4 digit master password that you can set to lock the phone. This is a very easy step on how To hide and unhide photos on your

Redmi Smartphone

iii. You have to then enter the 4-digit master password

You can then enter the four-digit password that can be used to provide access to the sensitive information like when you are going to add a new fingerprint, or when you try to change the password, etc. This password or pattern lock can be usually made at the time we turn on the smartphone for the first time when you unlock or switch it on.

iv. You have to then create a pattern or create a pattern-lock

Once you have entered the four-digit password you will now be prompted in creating patterns or the Pattern-lock, that is used to lock the access to those of the hidden files which are saved to. This is for the first use, that is usually asked two times to confirm the use of any of the new pattern.
the Steps 3 & 4 only need to be done during the first attempt, and then for the next hiding process, the files will automatically start to disappear and get stored in a hidden folder.

v. The process is Done!

Once all the process is completed then all the files will not be seen again in the device’s gallery, as well as when and where you searched it from the file explorer, the files will not be found.

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