How To Hide Pictures On Facebook. Everyone likely has a few images sitting on their iPhone they 'd rather nobody else see, whether it's humiliating selfies, improperly filtered or edited pictures, an image of an invoice or personal documents, or anything else in the world of private pictures.

Those pictures can make revealing someone another photo on your iPhone (or iPad) an uncomfortable experience, as you're hoping they don't start flipping through your Camera Roll to discover that terrible photo of you after winning the pie consuming contest. Luckily the most recent versions of iOS include a brand-new way to mitigate that prospective awkwardness by hiding select pictures.

How To Hide Pictures On Facebook

The image hiding feature must be allowed individually for each picture, as it's set on a per-image basis. At the minute there is no bulk conceal function like there is with the ability to bulk get rid of a lot of photos at one time, so you may wish to get in the habit of frequently concealing the pictures you don't want to reveal up in your general images app views.

Note this feature is readily available only to iOS 8 and more recent, and though we're going to concentrate on the iPhone here, it works the exact same on the iPad and iPod touch too.

Concealing an Image in iOS

• Open Pictures and go to Video camera Roll or Albums as normal


• Tap on the image you wish to conceal, this will open it as usual


• Tap and hold on the image itself to raise an action menu, select "Conceal".


• Confirm that you wish to conceal the photo by tapping "Hide Photo".

Now that an image or many are concealed, they'll end up being unnoticeable to the Collections, Years views, and instead are positioned in a separate "Covert" album.

Accessing Your Hidden Photos in iOS.

• Open the Photos app and tap on "Albums" view.


• Find in the list of Albums the folder called "Hidden" (note the thumbnail is not instantly created for that folder, using extra privacy).


• Find your covert photos in the Hidden Album.

This is where all your hidden photos will be stored.



Note that while an image is concealed, it can still be shared or sent out through messages as normal, as long as you access it from this covert album.

Unhiding a Picture in iOS.

• From the Covert picture album, tap on the photo you wish to unhide.


• Tap and hang on the picture and select "Unhide" from the submenu that pops up.

This sends out the image back to the basic Video camera Roll and it ends up being available to all albums and collections views once again.

Is the Picture Really Concealed on the iPhone? Type of.

It is essential to comprehend how the conceal photo function works: the image( s) are concealed from the electronic camera roll, Moments, Collections, and Year view, however are still visible in a picture album not-so-discretely called "Hidden". In other words, while this is extremely efficient at concealing images from casual iPhone use and from browsing your photos in iOS, anybody who knows to look for the 'Hidden' album can still see the concealed images.

This is a decent way of managing your truly personal images, but if you're concerned about somebody finding the Covert pictures album, think about using the send-to-self trick to avoid offering picture album and electronic camera roll gain access to, or possibly simply message them the photos instead.

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