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You’re hiding your iPhone photos WRONG – how to totally conceal your pics

YOUR iPhone has two tricks to hide your photos – and using both is important.

It means someone is far less likely to stumble across your private photos.

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Maybe you’re trying to hide screenshots of a birthday present, weight loss progress photos, or something more intimate.

Whatever the reason, your iPhone makes it very easy to hide photos.

There are two important things to note.

One is that you can hide photos, but the second is that you can also conceal the iPhone’s Hidden folder itself.

So you get double the protection from nosy pals.

“When you hide photos and videos, they move to the Hidden album, so they don’t appear in your Library, in other albums or in the Photos widget on your Home Screen,” Apple explains.

“With iOS 14, you can turn off the Hidden album, so the photos are completely hidden.

“You can unhide photos and videos and turn the Hidden album back on whenever you like.”

How to hide iPhone photos

To hide Photos, choose an image and then tap the Share button – which looks like an arrow rising from a box.

Then choose the option to hide the photo or video.

You can also select multiple photos and hide them all at once.

To unhide the image, simply follow the same steps but select unhide.

The Hidden album is on by default, and is under the Albums tab in Photos – right near the bottom.

You can turn it off by going into Settings, tapping Photos, scrolling down and disabling Hidden Album.

Your hidden photos will remain hidden, but they won’t be visible in the Photos app.

If you were particularly paranoid, you could move the Photos app from your Home Screen.

But the Photos app will always remain installed on your device, and can easily be searched.

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