How To Hide Certain Photos On Facebook. Everyone likely has a few photos resting on their iPhone they 'd rather nobody else see, whether it's embarrassing selfies, badly filtered or modified photos, an image of a receipt or personal documents, or anything else in the world of private images.

Those pictures can make showing someone another photo on your iPhone (or iPad) an awkward experience, as you're hoping they do not start browsing your Camera Roll to discover that horrible picture of you after winning the pie eating contest. Fortunately the most recent variations of iOS include a brand-new method to mitigate that potential awkwardness by concealing select pictures.

How To Hide Certain Photos On Facebook

The picture hiding feature needs to be enabled individually for each image, as it's set on a per-image basis. At the moment there is no bulk hide function like there is with the ability to bulk eliminate a lot of pictures all at when, so you might wish to get in the habit of routinely hiding the images you don't want to show up in your basic photos app views.

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

Concealing a Picture in iOS

• Open Photos and go to Video camera Roll or Albums as usual


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


• Tap and hang on the image itself to raise an action menu, pick "Hide".


• Validate that you wish to hide the picture by tapping "Conceal Image".

Now that an image or lots of are concealed, they'll end up being unnoticeable to the Collections, Years views, and instead are placed in a different "Hidden" 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" (keep in mind the thumbnail is not instantly created for that folder, providing extra personal privacy).


• Discover your concealed images in the Hidden Album.

This is where all of your hidden photos will be stored.



Note that while a photo is concealed, it can still be shared or sent through messages as typical, as long as you access it from this surprise album.

Unhiding a Picture in iOS.

• From the Concealed picture album, tap on the image you wish to unhide.


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

This sends out the photo back to the general Cam Roll and it becomes accessible to all albums and collections views again.

Is the Photo Really Surprise on the iPhone? Type of.

It is very important to comprehend how the conceal picture function works: the photo( s) are concealed from the cam roll, Minutes, Collections, and Year view, however are still noticeable in a photo album not-so-discretely called "Hidden". Simply puts, while this is extremely efficient at concealing images from casual iPhone usage and from turning through your images in iOS, anyone who understands to look for the 'Hidden' album can still see the concealed images.

This is a good method of managing your genuinely private images, however if you're concerned about somebody discovering the Surprise photos album, think about using the send-to-self trick to avoid offering image album and video camera roll access, or perhaps just message them the images instead.

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