With privacy as the order of the day, our photo gallery is a complete and absolute trail that can put our privacy to the test in the event that our mobile falls into the hands of a person who is going to be able to gossip our gallery. Therefore, we may be thinking about what method we can use to hide our photos and videos on our iPhone. All this, without having to undergo tedious processes that can get complicated.
Do it with the native Photos app
When we talk about facilities when it comes to hiding our photos on our iPhone, we say it knowingly. The trick that we show so that your photos can be hidden and away from the gallery, will be perhaps the simplest of all those you can find on your iPhone.
To start this trick, the first thing we will have to do is search for all those photos that we want to hide within our native photos app. We can also do this process by including the photos one by one, but it will be much slower.
- Once we are in the Photos app and we have selected the photos that we want to use, we will have to click on the cube with the arrow that appears at the bottom left.
- We will look for the ‘Hide’ option among the many included in this menu
- Immediately afterwards, your photos will already be hidden on your iPhone
If you are wondering where photos have been hidden on your iPhone, the answer is simple. In the menu of the Photos app where all the albums appear, scroll down and look for ‘More items’ ; there, one of the options you will find will be ‘Hidden’ and there we will be able to find our hidden photographs.
In the same way, whenever we want to hide a photo that has entered our gallery again, we will simply have to repeat this process again. Although like all methods, it is not perfect, which ends up causing it to have its cons and this method of hiding photos, of course, is not far behind having its cons.
Issues to consider
This method does not have any type of password or security PIN when accessing the security folder, so we will have to be very careful when hiding our photos. If it were the case that someone took our mobile and knew how to access this hidden folder, they could see these photos that we have hidden . Therefore, we could have some problem in terms of privacy.
In the event that we want our folder to be more protected, we will not have any way to do it with this native iPhone app, so we will have to use a third-party app . To do this, in the App Store we can find numerous apps that can help us with this issue, although it is true that it can become tedious to have an app simply to hide our photos. Therefore, perhaps the best solution may be to not leave your mobile phone in the hands of a person who may be indiscreet and gossip our photos.
In the same way, iOS will not allow us to create hidden folders beyond those that the system itself already offers us, so we can only use the one that comes default in the photo app. Later, if we want to search for a specific photo within the folder, we will use the filters or the search option that the photo app itself gives us.