How To Make Photos Private On Iphone 6

When I hide photos in my Camera Roll, they appear in the "Hidden" folder, but they still appear in the Camera Roll. Isn't the purpose of this feature to not show the photos in Camera Roll? Is anyone else having this problem?

With the advent of the technology, the iPhone users can now keep their content on the phone protected at all times. This has necessitated a feature that can hide some highly personal or objectionable content. Well, in iOS 9, Apple has introduced a facility that can hide multiple photos/videos on iPhone/iPad.

Keeping in mind users' privacy needs, companies have launched several iPhone apps that can be used to keep the private data confidential. These apps, essentially adds an extra layer of security to the iPhone and ensure the information that are meant to be confidential to be protected. There are several ways of hiding the photos on iPhone with or without using the apps. You can try them all and pick up the one that you like the most.

• Part 1. How to Manually Hide Photos on iPhone X/8/7/6S/6 (Plus)
• Part 2. How to Backup Photos to PC
• Part 3. 5 Best iPhone Apps to Hide Photos

Part 1. How to Manually Hide Photos on iPhone X/8/7/6S/6 (Plus)

If you want to avoid the hassle of copying and saving the photos using any other applications or think you may not be able to recollect the password set for any applications, then the mentioned method as below is the easiest way for you to save the photos right within your iPhone.

Step 1 Go to Photos app in your iPhone X/8/7/6S/6 (Plus) and Launch it.

Step 2 Next, click "Select" at the top-right corner and then select the photos that you would like to hide. Then, Tab on the Box icon at the bottom of the screen.

Step 3 Now you can choose Hide icon at the bottom of the screen to hide the selected photos.

Then, a window will pop up to double check if you want to hide the selected photos, click "Hide 2 Photos" on the screen to hide the photos. Then the photos have been hiden and won't be shown on the Moments page of iPhone easily.

Hidden photos still show in Camera Roll?

Please note: When you hide a photo, it will be hidden from the library in Moments, Collections, Years, but be visible in any album. The Camera Roll is an album. Which means that you can hide multiple Photos/Videos iOS 9 on iPhone, but you could not hide photos on iPhone camera roll.

How to Unhide Photos

First two steps will be similar as mentioned for hiding the photos. A menu will pop-up once you tap on Share button. Now tap on Unhide from the lower menu.

Part 2. How to Backup Photos to PC

So if you failed to hide photos on iphone camera roll, you can backup photos on iPhone Camera Roll to PC first, and then delete the photos on your iPhone X/8/7/6S/6 (Plus). Wondershare TunesGo could help you backup all photos to PC with one click.

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Step 1 Launch Wondershare TunesGo and connect your iPhone with the computer. Then click Photos icon at the top of the main interface, you will enter the default photo type: Camera Roll.

Step 2 Check the photos you want to delete from iPhone, and click Export > Export to PC or right-click on the selected photos and then select Export > Export to PC from the drop down list.

Step 3 Then click Delete button at the top menu.

Part 3. 5 Best iPhone Apps to Hide Photos

Several iPhone apps are on offer, allowing the users to keep their photos hidden within the phone. The most popular iPhone apps that can be used to keep your photos hidden are mentioned as below:

1) Private Photo Vault

This is one of the best and most private photo apps that works well for iPhone and iPad. It requires a password to get in Photo Vault by typing the passcode.

The app supports both dot lock and password lock. It enables the users to lock and manage the photos that you want to keep private or secret. The steps to achieve it is mentioned as below.

Step 1 Select the photo that you need to hide.

Step 2 Upon long pressing the photo, it will disappear and goes to 'Private' folder in Photo Vault.

Now, if someone looks at the camera folder, the photo won't be available as its hidden.

Note: To bring the photo back or make it public again, go to Photo Vault by typing the passcode, go to Private folder and long-press the photo you want to make public.

Rating: 4+
Price: Free

2) My Secret Folder

My Secret Folder is a great app that can help you keep your stuffs like photos private by allowing you to add a passcode. The application can be used for saving any information like photos, contacts, notes, videos, clips, songs and even movies.

The application also offers additional feature by letting you know if someone tried to access your private photos but ended up entering wrong passcode. The app will also take their photo and save on your phone for you to know about the incident. Cool, isn't it?

Step 1 Login to 'My Secret Folder' by using the passcode.

Step 2 From there access your iPhone's photo album to select the photo you want to import to Secret Folder. Click to select the photo and it will be moved to Secret Folder.

The photos being moved this way will not be available for viewing by anyone.

Rating: 4+
Price: Free

3) Keep Safe

Keep Safe is a free app that allows the iPhone users to hide their photos from the occasional casual browsers of their phone. It is again a great app that does not allow accessing your hidden photos by using the 4 digit pins or password.

Keep Safe also has a feature for taking photos by using this app, in case the user intends to directly move the photo to Keep Safe. This app comes with a private camera, so you can take a picture using Keep Safe app and save the photo straight inside the app. This way it saves effort and time spent in moving the photos from an iPhone camera roll to Keep Safe for hiding them.

Step 1 Logon to Keep Safe using your protection pin.

Step 2 Decide and select the photos you want to hide.

Step 3 Click 'Hide' and the photos will be hidden from the camera folder.

Note: To unhide the photos, press 'Unhide' in the bottom of the interface.

Rating: 4+
Price: Free

4) SpyCalc

SpyCalc allows storing the images or photos under a layer of a simple looking calculator. As the name suggests, SpyCalc is a functional calculator. But the application displays the photos only when the user enters the correct password.

While it allows the photos to be moved to this application from Photolibrary, SpyCalc also allows categorizing and arranging the photos thus making the search easy.

Step 1 Download SpyCalc to your iPhone X/8/7/6S/6 (Plus).

Step 2 Go to SpyCalc 'Settings' and turn on Website option.

Step 3 Using a browser, log into the iPhone.

Step 4 Next, you can 'Choose Files' and upload it or 'Drag and drop' the files to upload into SpyCalc.

Rating: 4+
Price: Free

5) Dropbox

Another easy way of hiding your photos and locking them with passwords is by using Dropbox. The steps to achieve this as below:

Step 1 Decide and select the photos that you would like to protect or hide.

Step 2 Move the selected photos from the camera application to the Dropbox.

Step 3 Next, choose to add a 4 digit password / passcode to make the Dropbox app password protected.

Photos hidden using this method cannot be opened without using the right password, thus makes your photos hidden and safe.

Rating: 4+
Price: Free

With the above mentioned methods, now the iPhone users can relax and rest assured, the photos on the iPhone X/8/7/6S/6 (Plus) will remain hidden and won't be available to others for viewing even in case of accidental handling and browsing the phone.

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How To Make Photos Private On Iphone 6

Source: https://tunesgo.wondershare.com/iphone-photos/hide-photos-on-iphone.html

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