Apple Photos is a incredible method to snap, save, retailer, and share your pictures with you household and mates, even your Apple TV’s screensaver, however there are some pictures which can be in your eyes solely. (This hilariously tragic recent Reddit post is simply one such excessive instance.) Fortunately, there’s a simple method to hide them so they received’t flip up unexpectedly.
You can hide pictures utilizing your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, and the tactic is principally the identical on every.
iPhone/iPad
- Open the Photos app.
- Tap the photograph you need to hide.
- Tap the Share button.
- Tap Hide.
- Confirm that you really want to hide the photograph.
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Mac
- Open the Photos app.
- Select the photograph or pictures you need to hide.
- Right click on or control-click and choose Hide.
- You can additionally use the menu bar and choose Image > Hide photograph.
- Confirm that you really want to hide the photograph.
Apple will then transfer the pictures right into a hidden album referred to as Hidden. If you utilize iCloud pictures—and if you happen to discovered this how-to, we’re guessing you do—the modifications will seem throughout your whole gadgets. If you hide a photograph in your Mac, it’ll additionally hide in your iPhone and vice versa.
How to view the Hidden album
If you need to see what’s in your Hidden album, right here’s what you want to do:
iPhone/iPad
- Go to Albums in the Photos app.
- Scroll down to Hidden underneath Utilities.
- Tap to open.
- To hide your entire album, go to the Settings app, then Photos, scroll down to Hidden Album, and switch the toggle off.
Mac
- Go to the View menu in the menu bar and choose “Show Hidden Photo Album.”
- Click the Hidden album in the sidebar to open it.
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Finally, you can all the time unhide a photograph by going to the hidden album and utilizing the identical steps you took to hide it however selecting “Unhide” this time to take away it from the album.
Michael Simon has been overlaying Apple for the reason that iPod was the iWalk. His obsession with know-how goes again to his first PC—the IBM Thinkpad with the lift-up keyboard for swapping out the drive. He’s nonetheless ready for that to come again in type tbh.
