Best Way To hide Personal Pictures/Videos on Android

Hide all your personal data like picture videos and other important files in android. We all have embarrassing and personal pictures/videos on our phone that we don’t want to share with the others,but our friend’s and families always borrow our phone’s and starts seeing our personal data.Since they are our friend’s and family we can’t deny them because it will be rude and you can’t be rude to them.But we can stop this without being rude to your friend’s and family.

How to hide Pictures/Videos on Android

We can hide them in a very easy way.There are mainly two ways that we can apply which are as follow :

REQUIREMENTS :

1.File Manager.

2.Common Sense – that we all have.

STEPS :

Download any file manager from the play store and after installing it.Open File Manager,any file manager will do fine.Put all the Images/Videos that you want to hide and put them in one folder.Now rename that folder and put ” . ” in front of the folder’s name.For example – your folder name is Hidden then Change it to .Hidden

Now this folder will be hidden.The gallery and other apps won’t be able to pick this folder and this data inside this folder cannot be seen by others.
If you want to see it for yourself:
Open “File Manager” > “Settings” > “Show Hidden Files” > Tick It.
Now you can see the folder in the file manager but make sure to Untick this option to Hide it again.
This trick is so useful and easy to apply it.And other people never even suspects that you have any personal data on you device.Because it is not visible to them like password type thingy!!

If you don’t want to follow this manual steps then there is another very easy way :

APPLOCK –
That is with the help of a locking App called “AppLock“.
This app has built in options to hide your images and videos.
Just open the app,bring out the options by sliding from left to right and choose “Hide Images/Videos” & select the images and videos and click the “Hide Button” and your data will be locked.
Make sure that you choose the Strong Password for locking this app.
This app also have many other useful features like locking app which can come in handy locking your text messages,contact etc.This app cannot be uninstalled without the password so don’t worry your data is always safe from deleting.
By using all the above mention technique you can surely save your personal images/videos from the others.And as you can see it is very easy to do so!!

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