Apple's iOS 14 update has made it possible for users to hide pictures from their iPhone's main camera roll in the Photos app.
For many years, iPhone users longed for ways on how to hide pictures from their main camera roll in the Photos app so images they considered private are completely concealed from plain view. You can now do this with the new feature in the form of the Hidden Album toggle that came with Apple's iOS 14.
There are several reasons why some users want to conceal certain photos. Whatever the reasons are, Apple has made it possible for you to hide pictures in the Photos app with its iOS 14 updates.
In older iOS versions, while it may appear possible to "hide" photos, it is actually not completely hidden. This is not so in the new process integrated by Apple in the iOS 14 update which made it possible to really hide pictures in the Photos app. The process in the older iOS versions involved selecting a picture then pressing the Share button and subsequently pressing Hide. This takes away the picture from your main Library App, giving the sense that it is hidden.
However, anyone can easily find the same photo and all they have to do is to go to Albums, then Other Albums, and finally tapping Hidden. This defeats the whole point of the process as anyone can just easily access the photo you supposedly concealed. Even a toddler, who is not specifically looking for the hidden photo, could come across such if he accidentally accesses the Hidden album view. With the new iOS 14 update, Apple has included the Hidden Album toggle function that allows you to hide pictures in the Photos app without fear of such photos being discovered either intentionally or accidentally.
Apple's iOS 14 update took the old process one step further with the addition of the Hidden Album function. It does not only hide the picture you want concealed from plain view but also completely removes all traces of hidden pictures from the Photos app.
To do this on an iPhone or iPad with Apple's iOS 14 or iPadOS 14 update, tap on Settings and then Photos, afterward, toggle off Hidden Album. When you go back to the Photos app, you will notice you have no way of navigating back to the hidden album and your hidden pictures are really unavailable in the Photos app.
While Apple made a substantial step in the right direction, some users say an intruder could still open the iPhone's or Ipad's Settings app very easily and proceed to deactivate the toggle to expose the Hidden album. Many are asking Apple to devise a way, such as through a Face ID or Touch ID system, to lock the hidden album. At the moment, however, this kind of feature is not yet available in the Photos app on iOS 14, but perhaps with future updates, Apple might just integrate such functionality.
