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It doesn’t matter which phone or device you are using; our guide here will show you how to safely hide photos using a trusted app and how simple and easy it really is to manage and protect your private memories so they won’t show in the gallery, search, or memories and can only be accessible through a passcode or fingerprint.
Let’s explore the possibilities and find out which solution works best for you.
Hiding Photos on Android using Private Photo Vault
We will use one of the most popular apps, Private Photo Vault, to hide our private photos in a passcode-protected vault. It is a cross-platform compatible app with cloud storage and many notable premium features.
How to Set Up Private Photo Vault
Here is a guide on downloading and setting it up on your Android phone.
- Download and install Private Photo Vault for your phone from the app store.
- Once installed, the app will ask you to set up a passcode for your photo vault the moment you open it.
- You can provide a backup email address, which will be helpful in those cases when you forget your passcode and are searching for a way to regain access to your account. Fortunately, this is the only option to restore the lost password of your Private Photo Vault, so we highly recommend that you set it up; otherwise, you won’t be able to recover your photos and videos.
- Grant storage access to the app so it can access your gallery and let you import the photos and videos to your photos vault.
Congratulations, your vault has been successfully set up.
How to Add Photos to the Private Photo Vault
Now, we will import photos and videos from our phone’s gallery to the photo vault so that we can hide them under password protection. Since an album named “Main Album” has already been created for us by default, we will use it to import media files. Alternatively, you can create a new personalized album as well.
Let’s begin importing photos and videos from the phone’s gallery…
- Once you are logged into the Private Photo Vault, select the Album where you want to add photos and videos.
- Tap the “+” icon on the lower bar and select “Import photos.”
- Your gallery will open now, but you need to select the photos and videos you want to import manually.
- Once the selection is done, tap “Import.”
- A popup message will inform you that the selected photos will be removed from the original location and stored in the Private Photo Vault. This is to avoid duplication and save storage space. Simply tap on “Import” to continue.
- This might take a while, depending on the number and size of the photos and videos. Once completed, an import complete popup message will appear.
- You will see a popup message asking whether to allow Private Photo Vault to delete the photos and videos from the gallery that have already been imported to the app. Depending on your preference, you can either cancel the removal process or allow the app to remove it.
Your photos, videos, and media files are now moved to a private vault and locked behind a passcode.
How to View Your Hidden Photos and Videos
Since all your private and personal images and videos are locked behind a safe folder, you will be willing to know how to view them. The process is really simple.
- On your phone, launch Private Photo Vault.
- Authenticate your identity by entering a passcode or using a fingerprint if it was set up before.
- Here, you should be able to see all the albums along with all the hidden media files.
Concluding Thoughts
Our photos and videos, which we capture from our phones every day, comprise personal moments and memories. There are situations when we prefer to keep these memories hidden. This is where the Private Photo Vault app we mentioned and the guide we shared will help ensure your privacy, especially if someone from your friends wants to see your gallery and you don’t want them to see specific images.
