How To Hide My Photos On Facebook. Everyone likely has a couple of pictures sitting on their iPhone they 'd rather no one else see, whether it's embarrassing selfies, improperly filtered or edited pictures, an image of a receipt or individual paperwork, or anything else in the realm of personal pictures.

Those images can make showing someone another image on your iPhone (or iPad) an awkward experience, as you're hoping they do not start turning through your Video camera Roll to find that terrible image of you after winning the pie consuming contest. Luckily the newest versions of iOS include a brand-new method to reduce that prospective awkwardness by concealing select photos.

How To Hide My Photos On Facebook

The photo concealing function needs to be made it possible for individually for each image, as it's set on a per-image basis. At the minute there is no bulk hide function like there is with the capability to bulk get rid of a lot of photos simultaneously, so you might want to get in the practice of frequently hiding the pictures you don't want to show up in your basic images app views.

Note this function is readily available just to iOS 8 and newer, and though we're going to focus on the iPhone here, it works the very same on the iPad and iPod touch too.

Concealing an Image in iOS

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


• Tap on the picture you want to conceal, this will open it as normal


• Tap and hold on the picture itself to bring up an action menu, choose "Hide".


• Validate that you want to hide the picture by tapping "Hide Photo".

Now that an image or many are hidden, they'll end up being undetectable to the Collections, Years views, and instead are positioned in a different "Concealed" 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 produced for that folder, using additional personal privacy).


• Find your hidden pictures in the Hidden Album.

This is where all of your surprise photos will be saved.



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

Unhiding a Photo in iOS.

• From the Hidden photo album, tap on the photo you want to unhide.


• Tap and hold on the photo and select "Unhide" from the submenu that appears.

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

Is the Photo Truly Covert on the iPhone? Sort of.

It is very important to understand how the hide picture function works: the picture( s) are hidden from the camera roll, Minutes, Collections, and Year view, but are still visible in a photo album not-so-discretely called "Hidden". In other words, while this is very reliable at hiding images from casual iPhone use and from scanning your photos in iOS, anybody who understands to try to find the 'Hidden' album can still see the concealed images.

This is a good way of handling your genuinely private photos, however if you're worried about someone discovering the Surprise pictures album, think about using the send-to-self trick to avoid offering photo album and camera roll gain access to, or perhaps just message them the photos instead.

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