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Let's look at how you can hide a photo or folder on your iPhone so that strangers don't see it. We will use the built-in capabilities of iOS and third-party programs.

This article is suitable for everyone iPhone models 11/Xs(r)/X/8/7/6 and Plus on iOS 13. Older versions may have different or missing menu options and hardware support listed in this article.

Built-in iPhone Features

IN iOS system 12+, there is an option to hide photos on iPhone in the “Collections”, “Years” and “Moments” albums. Users can now hide photos, videos, and media folders and only view them in their own Hidden album.

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Hide photos on a Mac computer

• Launch the Photo program.
• Select the photo to hide.
• Control-click the photo, then click Hide. You can also hide a photo by selecting the “Image” section in the line, then “Hide Photo”. You can also press the Command - L button to hide the photo.
• We confirm that the photo needs to be hidden.

When working with iCloud Photo Library, photos that you have hidden on one gadget will be hidden on your other devices.

Show hidden photos

If you need to display hidden photos again in the “Collections”, “Years” and “Moments” albums, perform the following steps.

For gadgets iPod touch, iPad or iPhone:

On Mac computer:

• Open the Photos application, select View from the menu bar, then Show hidden photo album.
• Open the “Albums” view, and then open the “Hidden” album.
• Select the photo that should be displayed.
• Click the photo while holding down the Control key.
• Click “Show photo”.

Third party programs

You can hide photos and photo folders on iOS 11 using third party programs. Let's look at the most functional and common of them.

Photo&Video Locker

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The utility allows you to hide photos and videos conveniently and securely; you can download it in the App Store. Photos will be locked and you will need to enter a secret PIN to view them.

Application Features:

• Encryption. Hidden folders and photos are not only located on the gadget in a secret place, but are also encrypted using the 128-bit AES encryption system.
• Hidden photos can be rotated on both sides.
• Zoom out and zoom in on hidden photos.
• Blocking entry to the application. If the user forgot to exit the utility, the application will be blocked after the iPhone goes into sleep mode.
• Import pictures from your computer using iTunes import.

Locker: Hide your photos

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The application has functionality for hiding not only photos, but also videos, applications and files that are protected with a fingerprint. Locker can be downloaded from the App Store.

To hide photos, they must be stored not in your own library, but directly in the application. An important point is the Pin code to gain access to the photos. If you do not set up TouchID and lose your Pin code, you will not be able to log into Loker.

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To hide photos from your camera roll, select the ones you want and select “Hide.” They won't appear in photo albums, recommendations, or other Photos sections. But you can access them without a password through the “Hidden” menu.

That's a pretty good way to block access to “special” photos, isn't it?

We have selected 5 applications that will contain pictures and They won't let you view them without a password.. If you need it, take it.

Private Photo Vault - protect your photos with a password

A good application that will give you the opportunity to hide your personal photos from prying eyes.

The developers emphasize that it was chosen by more than 5 million users from different parts of the world. But I seriously doubt that many people are looking at the ugly icon of this program.

Despite the program's logo, which remains in the days of skeuomorphism, it has enough fresh interface in a minimalist style.

If the device falls into the wrong hands and someone enters the wrong password for the program, it will show them stock photos.

This is a great way to deceive a curious user. He will never know what is really hidden, if he doesn't have a password.

Lock Secret Photo Album Vault - protect your photos with a graphic key

Another application that will help you hide your pictures using a password.

It differs from analogues appearance and opportunity use pattern key.

It will be enough to open the program, make a special gesture, and it will immediately show the hidden pictures.

And also in the application there is special private browser , which will make it possible to save photos with a password directly from the Internet.

In today's article we will learn hide apps And put a folder inside a folder(tautology is inevitable:). No jailbreak required.

Each new version of the iOS mobile operating system makes user interaction with a smartphone more practical and convenient. But if the final release was perfect and did not include bugs or shortcomings, life would be boring and uninteresting. All users of the iOS platform are divided into the following categories: those who are satisfied with the standard set of functionality and those who are ready to fight justice to the last, installing all kinds of . There is another category - users looking for bugs and holes in order to improve the functionality of the device. Let's discuss these.

Hiding applications

Using third-party tweaks on a jailbroken device, you can hide the icons of applications that you want to hide from prying eyes. Who seeks will always find. Without complex manipulations, but only armed with a good reaction, you can hide any icon.

1. Go to the main (first) page Springboard.
2. Fill the window to capacity: depending on the device - 20 or 24 application icons.
3. The application you are going to hide must be located on any another page Springboard.
4. Press and hold your finger on the application icon (as when deleting). Without releasing your finger, move the icon to first page Springboard.
5. Without releasing the icon, point it at any application ( attention!– not a folder).
6. Continue holding your finger. The newly created folder will open. Do not release the icon, but display it beyond the gray background of the folder into the dock area(bottom panel with handset, mail and browser).
7. Once the application returns from the folder (the one you hovered over with the original icon), release your finger from the Dock area. The icon will disappear.

You can find the icon only by searching from .

In order to hidden icons reappeared on Springboard, just reboot the device. But only you know about this :)

Folder within a folder

Familiar folders in mobile operating system iOS wasn't always there. Up to iOS 4 iPhone and iPod owners were forced to place dozens of icons on 5-6 pages of Springboard.

Number of applications in App Store grows exponentially. Users with more than 200 apps on their devices find that even folders don't solve the clutter and difficulty of finding the app they want. By default, iOS does not provide folder-within-folder attachments, but it all depends solely on your reaction:

To carry out the operation of embedding a folder into a folder, we need two applications and a previously created folder.

1. Tap and hold the app with your finger (as if you were deleting).
2. Once the icon has increased in size and you can move it, point it to another application icon.
3. When the folder creation starts, release the moving icon and tap and hold on the required folder. Don't let go of your finger.
4. You can move the captured folder to the newly created one.

The peculiarity of such a move is the following: the folder nested inside is not visible until the directory is opened. By experimenting with folders, you can achieve something like this effect.

This bug (or a hidden feature that Apple is silent about) works on all iOS versions 7.0 and up to 8.1.3 .

Privacy is a very important part of our lives. Therefore, each device (including the iPhone) has a very large number of settings that help hide information from prying eyes.

If you are an avid iPhone owner, then there have probably been situations when, when meeting someone, you put your phone on the table and a notification or message arrives. Well, based on the reaction, your friend can also see what came there.

To avoid this situation, iOS 11 has very useful setting. So today you will learn how to hide an incoming notification on the lock screen of your favorite iPhone.

As far as I know, on the iPhone X this is implemented automatically and the text is shown only after Face ID recognizes you. But this was quite a big problem on other models, until this day. Let's figure out what and how.

How to hide message text on iPhone on lock screen?

I don’t know how Apple came up with this, because I myself only recently found out that there is such an opportunity. Moreover, it is possible to configure both for everything at once, and for a specific program separately.

For all applications

It is quite possible that you would like to hide the notification text of absolutely all programs. This is quite normal and to do this, follow these steps:

• let's go to Settings and look for the item Notifications;
• from above we go into Show thumbnails;
• select an item If unlocked(I have a tick in the Always box, because I don’t have this need).

Notifications - Show thumbnails - If unlocked

Now, absolutely all notifications will be hidden from prying eyes and you will only see the name of the application that contains the notification. After unlocking the iPhone, the necessary information will be available.

For a single application

Now let's talk about the case when you want to hide the contents of a message, for example, from a specific messenger. It can be absolutely any program.

We follow this scheme:

• again we go to Settings — Notifications;
• scroll through and look for the application you need (in my case, I chose Viber);
• select below Show thumbnails;
• here we go again If unlocked.

Notifications - Viber (for example) - Show thumbnails - If unlocked

Now your life will be a little easier and you no longer have to worry that someone will be able to read the contents of the notification on your iPhone's lock screen.

If you want how it will be, then here is an example on the 10th iPhone. It will be absolutely similar:


As you can see, at some points Apple thinks about users. It’s just that usually everything is quite limited and it can be really frustrating that you can’t do this or that action.

Many standard applications do not meet the requirements of modern users, even though Apple developers are making them better every day new version iOS. And, it would seem, they do not particularly interfere, but they take up space on the desktop. In this article, we'll look at two ways to hide unused stock apps on iPhone.

In fact, there is no method that would suit all iPhone users. iOS functionality does not allow device owners to hide or delete standard applications, so various tricks must be used. There are no such tricks this moment There are two: in the first case, you will need iOS 7.1 or higher installed, and in the second, a jailbreak.

How to hide unused default apps on iPhone? Method 1

This method is suitable for iPhone (and iPad) owners with installed iOS 7.1 or higher. Why this version? Starting with iOS 7.1, a bug was discovered that allows you to hide any icons until the device is rebooted. Attention: after the “reboot” everything will return to its place.

Step 1: Collect all unused standard applications in one folder

Step 2. Go to one of the desktops of your iOS device and fill all the cells with application icons (the dock should also be filled), and also move the folder with unused applications to this screen

Step 3. Important! At this stage it is necessary to pay the most attention. Create a folder by moving one application to another and immediately, while the animation is running, transfer the folder with unused applications into it. As a result, you should have a new folder with two applications and a folder.

Step 4. Pull both applications back to the desktop, then drag out the folder - it will disappear and cease to be an eyesore

The method is much simpler than described. For clarity, we will publish a video shot by a user who found this small “hole” in iOS.

How to hide unused default apps on iPhone? Method 2

In order to hide icons of unused applications using the second method, you do not have to do any additional manipulations. All you need is a jailbreak and a HiddenApps tweak from Cydia (you can download it from the repository http://repo.idoodler.de).

After downloading the tweak, you will be asked not only to hide unnecessary application icons, but also to disable advertising banners, run iOS diagnostics, and enter the device into Field Test mode. HiddenApps does not need to be configured - everything works immediately after installation.

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