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AskCyber Home » News » data privacy » How to Hide Photos on Your iPhone

How to Hide Photos on Your iPhone

2020-03-19 by Keith Harlock

Hide Photos iPhone

Hide Photos on iPhone – How to Hide Photos and Videos on iOS iPhone

Hide photos on your iPhone if you don’t want anyone seeing them as you scroll through your photo app. When you take a photo on your iPhone, all photos are saved to your photo gallery. When scrolling through your photo app to show someone a photo or video you probably have come across something you don’t want others to see. You can hide photos on your iPhone to get them out of view.

Hide photos and videos on iPhone you have to go photo by photo and hide them upper image bases there’s no ability just left several photos at once and hide them

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What Does Hiding a Photo Do?

The privacy issue is that your supposedly hidden photos and videos are accessible in a single folder. Anyone who can unlock your iPhone can open your Hidden folder and see your private media.

iPhone Photos App
iPhone Photos App

Is the Photo Really Hidden on the iPhone?

Not really. The photos and videos that you choose to hide are not viewable from the camera roll, moments, collections, and in year view. They can however be seen in a photo album labeled hidden which is not married is great name. You don’t even have the option to rename the hidden folder to something unique to your iPhone.

Hiding a photo on iPhone is only good for stopping the Casual user from seeing a photo as you scroll through your photo app your view moments or collections. It’s not good for locking up it won’t work for locking up a photo and keeping a totally secret from someone who gains access to your phone where’s yet no matter which version of iOS you’re running hidden photos are all stored in an album called hidden so anyone trying to snoop your photos, knows exactly where to look.

These photos will be hidden from all places in your photo library and can be found in the Hidden album.

iPhone Photos Edit
iPhone Photos Edit

How to Hide Photos in the iPhone Photos App

On an iPhone, you can hide photos, but it really doesn’t hide them or encrypt them, it just moves them to a hidden folder. So, it’s really just an organization tool that tidies up your photos and videos.

  1. Unlock your iPhone
  2. Open Photos
  3. Select the photo or video to hide
  4. To hide a photo, tap the box with an arrow in the bottom left on a photo
  5. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and select edit actions
  6. Under the photos section, tap the green plus sign that says Hide
  7. Once Hide has moved to the section at the top called Favorites, click done
  8. Once you are back on the screen from step 2, click Hide
  9. You can view the Hide folder on the Albums page, at the bottom under the other albums section
iPhone Photos Hide
iPhone Photos Hide

These newly hidden photos can now be found in the Hidden album instead of the photos folder.

Every photo that you hide appears in a not-so-secret album named Hidden. The Hidden media album can be found under the albums tab in the Photos app.

You cannot password protect the Hidden album, or even hide a photo using FaceID or Touch ID, or a passcode.

iPhone Hide Photos Other Albums
iPhone Hide Photos Other Albums

How to Unhide Photos on iPhone

  1. Open the Photos app
  2. Tap on the Albums tab
  3. Select the Hidden album
  4. Choose Select in the upper right corner
  5. Choose the photos you want to unhide
  6. Tap the Share button
  7. Along the bottom row of Share icons, select Unhide

Can You Lock Hidden Photos on The iPhone?

No. You cannot lock hidden photos on iPhone. They aren’t exactly protected or some sort of mystery because they’re stored in a folder called hidden. The hidden folder cannot be protected with a passcode pin or face ID that’s not really a very secure way to hide photos that you don’t want other people to see.

How Do You Hide A Hidden Album on iPhone?

Unfortunately, you cannot hide the Hidden album on an iPhone. So, this isn’t the best way to protect private photos or videos that you want to keep secret.

Filed Under: data privacy Tagged With: iPhone

About Keith Harlock

Keith has 30 years of experience managing staff for the planning and design of highway, bridge and transportation-related projects and specialty structures. Keith oversees the development of and authors numerous reports on a variety of topics related to transportation engineering and has worked with several key clients on projects related to infrastructure security. Keith is a licensed professional engineer in the State of New York, currently a State Board member of the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York and is a licensed commercial pilot with an instrument rating. He resides in Western New York.


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