19 January 2021John Weaver Senior Program Developer
Summary Photos can record our happy time. But, photos saved in our mobile phones may be easily stolen by the other people. To protect our privacy, we should keep our pictures well. In this essay, we will talk about how to hide our phone photos.
Usually, we save many photos in our mobile phones, such as the landscape photography, our private photos and something important. Once the phone is attacked by Trojan programs, these pictures will be easily disclosure. Besides, those who know your screen lock may illegally copy your photos. All these situations can negatively affect our privacy and even properties.
Part 2: How to Hide Photos in Phone?
Given to privacy security, many phone suppliers offer the function to hide photos. Basically, this function is set within iOS and Android. Next, we will show you how to hide photos in these two systems.
1. Hide iPhone Photos
a. Unlock iPhone and go to Photos. Find the photo you want to hide.
b. Tap the [Share] button and slide to the option [Hide]. Tap it.
c. Confirm that you want to hide the photo. Next time when you want to view this photo, go to the [Hidden] album.
2. Hide Android Photos
a. Unlock the phone and go to Photos. Find the photo you want to hide.
b. Tap the Settings button and select [Hide folder].
c. Next time when you want to view the hidden photos, go to Photos and tap the settings button to open the hidden album.
Note: Although we can hide photos in our mobile phone, we cannot use password to encrypt them. If someone is familiar with our phone, these hidden photos can be found easily and disclosure. Therefore, this function does not work for well encryption.
Part 3: How to Hide Photos in PC?
The above methods are only applied to mobile phone, and they are not safe. If you want to hide photos well, we suggest you transfer the photos to PC and use the professional software to encrypt them. Next, we will show you how to hide photos in PC.
1. Use Renee SecureSilo to Encrypt
Renee SecureSilo is one of the welcomed encryption software. It also contains the function to hide photos. We can save photos by creating a private disk. Those who don’t have the password cannot open the disk to view these photos. Here are two features of the software.
Easy to modify– Users can create a virtual disk and place files into the disk. Users can access data inside immediately and close when unnecessary. Different from compression software like RAR/ZIP/7ZIP, modifying data which is protected with Renee SecureSilo will not waste your time on decompression.
Safe– Due to the private virtual disk format and the advanced AES256 encryption technology, it cannot be easily cracked down by the common crackers.
Renee SecureSilo – Encrypt Confidential Data
Encrypt files in seconds Encrypt files with virtual encrypted disk and whole process can be finished in 1 second.
User friendly Concise interface helps users master the software in short time.
a. Download and install Renee SecureSilo. Open the software and set a login password. It should be entered for each login.
b. Click [Create Silo] to create a virtual disk.
c. Set a password for the disk.
d. Set a disk size and click [Next] to continue.
e. Transfer the phone photos to the computer and then place them into the disk. After that, click [Close silo] in the software to encrypt.
f. Next time, enter the correct password to open the silo and view the photos.
g. If you want to delete the silo, you can select it in the software and then click on [Edit Silo] > [Delete silo]. Confirm and enter the password to delete.
2. Use Renee File Protector to Lock
Renee File Protector is also the file encryption software welcomed by many users. It can hide photos in PC, not simply hide the display property. The photos hidden with the software are hardly viewed by the other people. Here are the steps about how to hide photos with Renee File Protector.
Renee File Protector - Overall Protection to Your Data
Easy to use Few clicks for whole folder encryption process.
Overall protection Users can hide, lock or get other protection to files in local disk or USB disk.
High Security Classified encryption method prevents data from leakage.
Compression transfer Support to compress and encrypt any files to secure the file transfer security.
Advanced self protection Provide self
Easy to use Few clicks for whole folder encryption process.
Overall protection Users can hide, lock or get other protection to files in local disk or USB disk.
High Security Classified encryption method prevents data from leakage.
a. Download and install Renee File Protector. Open the software and set a login password.
b. Click on [Hide File].
c. Transfer our photos to the computer and then click [Hide File]. Select the photos to hide. If you have many photos, you can place them into a folder and then encrypt this folder.
d. If you want to unhide the photos, you can modify the settings in the software.
3. Hide Items in Windows
Of course, we can directly hide items in Windows. This is an original function in the system. However, similar with the function in phone, it is not an encryption way. Other people can easily find out the hidden items. Therefore, we strongly recommend you to hide photos with the above applications.
How to hide Windows items:
a. Find the target photo and right click at it. Select [Properties].
b. In the General tab, check the option [Hidden]. Then, click [OK].
c. If you want to view the hidden photos, you can go into [Appearance and Personalisation] in [Control Panel]. In View tab of File Explorer Options, select [Show hidden files, folders and drives].
