In this tutorial, we will show you how to hide your hidden photos gallery on your iPhone. There might be a few personal clicks or some pictures with important data that you want to hide on your Apple devices. In that regard, you could add all such photographs inside a hidden album. Sounds simple, right? While the steps are indeed easy to execute, that doesn’t necessarily fall under a great protective measure. The reason being the fact that all such hidden photos aren’t really hidden.

In fact, they could easily be accessed by heading over to the Albums tab and visiting the Hidden Album folder. So anyone having access to your unlocked device could get a hold of all your hidden clicks without any issue as such. However, with the latest iOS14 update, Apple seems to have taken note of this, and has addressed this issue up to a great extent. While there are still some caveats attached to this process as well,  but it isn’t as glaring as it used to be earlier. With that in mind, here are the required steps to hide your hidden photos gallery on your iPhone. Follow along.

Before we list down the steps for the afore-mentioned task, let’s address the elephant in the room. iOS 14 has now introduced the ability to even hide your Hidden Albums. While that’s great, but not without flaws. The thing is that this Hidden Album will always be always available in the image picker. It scores on the ease of usability considering we could easily access all our hidden images as and when required.

But unfortunately, some might argue that it destroys the whole Privacy thing, and we cannot blame them either. Until and unless Apple introduces the ability to hide these images under a Passcode, this might not come across as a privacy-centric feature. Anyways, with that said, here are the required instructions to hide your hidden photos gallery on your iPhone.

Steps to Follow

  • Launch the Settings menu on your iPhone device.
  • Scroll to the Photos section and tap on it.
  • Finally, simply disable the Hidden Album toggle.
  • By disabling the toggle, we are instructing Apple not to show the Hidden Albums under the Albums section.

On that note, that was all the required steps. As already mentioned, even this features suffer from a drawback. If someone gets accessed to your unlocked device and knows a thing or two about the Apple ecosystem, he/she could easily just re-enable the Hidden Albums and get access to your ‘hidden’ photos.

So let’s hope that Apple introduces the feature to hide our desired photo albums under a password. What are your views on this? Do drop in your opinions in the comments section below about this option to hide your hidden photos gallery on the iPhone. Rounding off, here are some iPhone Tips and Tricks, PC tips and tricks, and Android Tips and Trick that you should check out as well.