How to hide a photo and your Hidden Photos album on iPhone

(Pocket-lint) - There are plentifulness of features wrong iOS software, from closing down each your Safari tabs astatine once, to utilizing the Apple logo connected the backmost a shortcut button. 

Embedded wrong the Photos app connected iPhone is the quality to fell a photo. There are aggregate reasons wherefore you mightiness privation to fell a photograph from your room - possibly it's a photograph of a contiguous you don't privation your different fractional to spot by accident, oregon possibly you person immoderate fittingness photos you'd alternatively were for your eyes only, for example. 

We won't inquire wherefore you mightiness similar to fell a photograph from your library, we volition conscionable archer you however to bash it, and portion we are astatine it, we volition archer you however to fell the hidden photos medium too. 

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How to fell a photograph from your iPhone photograph library 

When you fell a photograph from your Photo Library connected iPhone, it goes into a Hidden Photos album. You won't spot it successful your main Photo Library again, unless you unhide it.

Follow these steps to fell a photograph from your iPhone Photo Library:

1. Open the Photos app
2. Tap connected the photograph you privation to hide
3. Tap connected the stock icon successful the bottommost near country (rectangle with arrow)
4. Swipe up from the bottommost to scroll 
5. Tap connected 'Hide' from the database of options
6. Select 'Hide Photo'

How to spot hidden photos connected iPhone and unhide a photo 

To spot immoderate photos you person hidden connected iPhone, you request to unfastened up your HIdden Photos album. From here, you tin click connected immoderate photograph you person hidden and unhide it. It volition past instrumentality to your Photos library.

Follow the steps beneath to spot hidden photos connected iPhone and unhide a photo:

1. Open the Photos app
2. Tap connected the Albums tab astatine the bottom
3. Scroll down to the bottommost wherever you'll spot the Utilities section
4. Under this section, you'll spot 'Hidden'
5. Tap connected 'Hidden'
6. Tap connected the photograph you privation to unhide, if any
7. Select the stock icon successful the bottommost near corner 
8. Swipe up from the bottommost to scroll 
9. Tap connected 'Unhide' from the options

How to fell your Hidden Photos medium connected iPhone

It is imaginable to not lone fell a photograph connected iPhone, but besides fell the Hidden Photos medium from appearing successful your albums astatine all. If you determine to fell the Hidden Photos album, past you'll request to travel the aforesaid steps beneath to unhide it everytime you privation to spot immoderate hidden photos. 

1. Open Settings
2. Scroll down to Photos
3. Tap connected Photos
4. Toggle disconnected Hidden Album

Writing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 4 June 2021.