Hide photos on iPhone and secure them with password It's something you might need at any time. For whatever reason, you should know that there is no specific functionality in iOS that allows you to hide and protect them, even though they may be hidden in a photo album. However, then it would be enough to have a PIN or iPhone password.
Fortunately, there are other ways to do it. without switching to questionable quality apps.
Hide your photos by password in Notes
Did you know that you can save photos to your iPhone notes? Well, it's one of the functions this iOS series app has, which we will use the opportunity to hide the images and secure them with a password. To do this, follow these steps:
- Select photos to hide in iPhone reel and click the Share button.
- Tap on the option to add notes to select a new one or one we like.
- When you send them to Notes, go to this application and slide the note mentioned on the left to show these options.
- Press the padlock, it will ask you to create a password or enter the one you have entered in some cases.
- Last step: delete photos from Reel.
From now on, the photos you uploaded there it will be password protected on your iPhone. You can access them with password compatible from a Mac or iPad with the same Apple ID.
Apps to hide passwords on an iPhone
Moving to third-party applications, in my opinion, it's best to use cloud storage again protect your password access, Touch ID or Face ID. In our experiments, we were able to hide the images on the iPhone and protect ourselves from Dropbox and Readdle Documents. Here's how:
- With Dropbox, go to app settings and activate the code. With this, you'll just enter a password. On an iPhone with a touch ID or facial ID, you can use this more comfortable system.
- Literary, and go to the normal app settings and activate that lock. In this app you can also choose a password, touch ID or facial ID.
And that's why With this you will only need to add the images to the corresponding folder of these apps to hide them on your iPhone. They will be protected gossip friends on other people's devices.
Pictures | Kārlis Dambrāns.
