How to move photos to hidden album

(Pocket-lint) - There are plenty of features within iOS software, from closing down all your Safari tabs at once, to using the Apple logo on the back a shortcut button. 

Embedded within the Photos app on iPhone is the ability to hide a photo. There are multiple reasons why you might want to hide a photo from your library - maybe it's a photo of a present you don't want your other half to see by accident, or maybe you have some fitness photos you'd rather were for your eyes only, for example. 

We won't ask why you might like to hide a photo from your library, we will just tell you how to do it, and while we are at it, we will tell you how to hide the hidden photos album too. 

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How to hide a photo from your iPhone photo library 

When you hide a photo from your Photo Library on iPhone, it goes into a Hidden Photos album. You won't see it in your main Photo Library again, unless you unhide it.

Follow these steps to hide a photo from your iPhone Photo Library:

1. Open the Photos app
2. Tap on the photo you want to hide
3. Tap on the share icon in the bottom left corner (rectangle with arrow)
4. Swipe up from the bottom to scroll 
5. Tap on 'Hide' from the list of options
6. Select 'Hide Photo'

How to see hidden photos on iPhone and unhide a photo 

To see any photos you have hidden on iPhone, you need to open up your HIdden Photos album. From here, you can click on any photo you have hidden and unhide it. It will then return to your Photos library.

Follow the steps below to see hidden photos on iPhone and unhide a photo:

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1. Open the Photos app
2. Tap on the Albums tab at the bottom
3. Scroll down to the bottom where you'll see the Utilities section
4. Under this section, you'll see 'Hidden'
5. Tap on 'Hidden'
6. Tap on the photo you want to unhide, if any
7. Select the share icon in the bottom left corner 
8. Swipe up from the bottom to scroll 
9. Tap on 'Unhide' from the options

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How to hide your Hidden Photos album on iPhone

It is possible to not only hide a photo on iPhone, but also hide the Hidden Photos album from appearing in your albums at all. If you decide to hide the Hidden Photos album, then you'll need to follow the same steps below to unhide it everytime you want to see any hidden photos. 

1. Open Settings
2. Scroll down to Photos
3. Tap on Photos
4. Toggle off Hidden Album

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Sometimes you want to hide, move or archive pictures and videos from your photo album so they don’t appear in your main camera roll. Both popular mobile operating systems make this easy. Here’s how:

iOS: Create and Use Hidden Folders

Apple lets you scoot images or videos into a separate folder so they are not easily seen when flipping through your main album. They’re removed from your main albums and galleries but are safely stored in another location. This works on iPhones and iPads.

• Launch the Photos app
• Tap the album that you want to hide images (or videos) from
• Tap Select in the upper right corner.
• Tap to select all the photos and videos you want to hide
• Tap the Share button (the icon with the up arrow)
• Choose Hide from the list of options for the images (you may have to scroll down)
• You will be prompted to confirm that you want to hide the files

Later, to find your hidden photos and videos, scroll down to Other Albums and tap Hidden. The photos you’ve hidden from view will be stored here. You can unhide a file by tapping the Share button and selecting Unhide. For more details visit Apple’s support page.

How to create hidden folders on Android

Please note, every Android is not the same. If these steps do not work for you, do a search for “hide photos on {your phone model and Android version}.”

For most stock versions of the Android operating system, these steps should work:

• Open the Google Photos app.
• Select the images that you wish to hide.
• Tap the three-dot icon in the top right-hand corner.
• Tap Move to Archive in the drop-down menu.

This hides your photos and videos in a separate folder (called Archive). You can access this from your main Google Photos menu, but the contents of this folder will not be included in any of your other feeds. For more details and tips, visit Android Central.

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