Sometimes a user needs to hide a photo on an iPhone or iPad from prying eyes. To do this, I know at least four methods, which differ in varying degrees of reliability and convenience.
In iOS 8 standard program Photo now has the ability to hide photos. But the implementation makes me smile.
How to hide a photo in iOS 8?
In the Albums section, find the photo and hold your finger on it. A submenu appears with the “Hide” item. Click on it.
A message appears that the photo will be hidden from certain views, but will be visible in Albums.
Why and for whom did we hide? I won’t get into the heads of iOS programmers and designers, but I can assume that this was intended to be hidden for the convenience of showing pictures to other people. You sit like this in front of your relatives and leaf through a photo album...
In fact, the function seems useless. The pictures end up in a special Hidden folder, from where they can be returned to “Albums” in exactly the same way.
IN App Store There are many programs that are designed to hide photos, videos and other files.
How these programs work:
But all these programs They don’t know one thing: to store pictures securely. It is very easy for someone else to extract photos from such applications:
a) connect to iTools (or analogues) and find the content.
b) Or even through iTunes in the Programs->Shared Files section.
Of course, you need access to an iPad or iPhone and possibly a computer. But what if this access is available? What if the task is to hide photos from relatives who sometimes use your tablet in the same way?
Storing photos in programs that support encryption. The perfect way to hide photos.
What's the point?
What applications support this? There are many, but here are a few:
uPassword App Store link.
1Password– AES-256 encryption, designed for storing passwords. Review .
Both programs have the ability to store photos.
In the pocket– AES-256 encryption, designed for secure storage documents. And where you can store documents, you can also store pictures. Review
Explanation: AES-256 encryption is considered one of the most reliable. Used by banks, government organizations, etc.
You can also hide pictures from prying eyes in cloud storage. Unfortunately, not all iOS apps support PIN protection.
If you are concerned about your privacy and do not want anyone else to view your private messages or conversely, you don't want to receive them from certain people, regardless of the reason, there is a way in which you can easily block or hide messages on your iPhone.
To do this, you do not need to download third-party software and spend a large number of time, but some methods have disadvantages that you need to know about.
Using this method, you will still receive notifications, but their text will be hidden, regardless of whether you unlocked your smartphone or not. However, it's worth noting that the contact's number or name will still be displayed. To hide the text of a message on iPhone, follow these steps:
1. First, you need to go to “Settings”.
2. Then open the “Notifications” tab.
3. In turn, find the “Messages” tab and tap on it.
4. In the Messages section, scroll down to Show Preview (Or On Lock Screen, depending on iOS version).
5. By default, the value will be set to “Always”. Change to the value “Never” (Or move the toggle switch from the “ON” position to the “OFF” position)
The main disadvantage of this method is that you turn off absolutely all messages that come to you. Because of this, you can easily miss an important notification, which will be extremely unpleasant.
1. Go to the “Settings” section.
2. Find and tap Notifications.
3. Scroll down to the Messages tab.
4. Disable the Allow Notifications feature.
Now, after receiving a message, you will not receive a sound/vibration alert, and any visual information (for example, a red circle above the application icon) will be absent.
To find out if you have a new message, you need to open Messages. You will see a blue dot next to a certain column (A column means a contact, phone number, etc.), this means that you have unread messages.
This option is best if you have a small number of people in your contact list from whom you do not want to receive messages. However, if their number is large, setting up each one separately can turn into a routine task. To hide a received message from a contact on iPhone, follow the steps below:
1. As always, open “Settings → “Notifications”.
2. Scroll down the page until you find “Messages”.
3. In the messages section, select "Allow notifications" (if you turned it off in the step above or it was turned on initially).
4. Then open the messages (application) and select the contact whose messages you want to hide. Open a message thread.
5. Click on the “i” in the upper right corner.
6. Select Hide Alerts. Now you will not see notifications coming from this user.
This method is ideal if you receive spam from unknown numbers. However, this method applies to all numbers not included in the contact list. On the one hand this is a minus, on the other hand it is a plus. It all depends on how you use this feature.
1. As always, go to Settings → Notifications → Messages.
2. Scroll down a little until you see the “Alerts from everyone” and “Alerts from contacts” function, select the second option (The function may be called “Filter by sender”, everything depends on the iOS version. Everything is a little simpler here, you just need move the slider to the “ON” position).
You want to hide one or more apps on Home iPhone screen or iPad? Or all applications downloaded from the App Store, leaving only those that come by default? Or maybe, on the contrary, you want to hide applications that come with iOS, such as Safari or iTunes? All of the above can be done using our advice.
We'll look at a few in various ways. Please note that programs are not removed when performing any of these actions, they simply become hidden from view.
Hide default apps on iPhone and iPad
You can use this to hide Safari, Camera, FaceTime and iTunes apps:
Back on main screen, you will see that disabled applications are no longer visible. They are still installed on the device, but hidden from the user; to get them back, simply enable the applications again in the restriction settings.
Unfortunately, not all default apps can be hidden using this method, although this may change in future versions of iOS. On this moment To hide all apps, you will have to use a few tricks, which we will talk about next.
Hide all downloaded apps from iOS home screen
This is an easy way to hide every app that has been downloaded to iOS from the App Store from the Home screen:
Return to the Home screen and you'll find that all the apps you downloaded from the App Store are missing, even from Apple. Again, they are not removed from the iPhone or iPad, but will simply be hidden from view until you remove restrictions on them. This method is suitable if you want to let someone use your iOS device, but at the same time, so that this someone does not have access to your personal data contained in some applications. It's also a good idea to set age restrictions if you're giving your device to a child.
Hide apps in a folder
This is an old method, it's been around since folders came into existence. But at the same time, it is probably The best way bring order to the screen of your device. And of course, this solution is, in many cases, very simple:
The application placed in the folder is hidden only from the main screen; it is now located in a different container. It's like putting something in a virtual closet and taking it out when you need it.
All these changes were made without applying third party programs or burglary iOS systems, We do not support methods that negatively affect the security and stability of the system.
It often happens that someone asks you for an iPhone or iPad in order to look at photos, but you are not very eager to show this person personal photos. You especially don’t want to do this if there are really explicit photos or videos on the device. Luckily, Apple has made it possible to hide media in the Photos app to make users feel more comfortable leaving their device in the wrong hands.
The reasons why you don’t want to put your photos and videos on public display can be very different, but the way to hide media files is always the same. The method of hiding media files is truly simple and accessible to use even by not the most experienced users iPhone and iPad.
Step 1: Go to the application Photo
Step 2: Find the photo or video you'd like to hide
Step 3. Select the desired media file
Step 4. Click on the menu item " Send» 
Step 5. On the page that opens, click on “ Hide» 
Step 6: Confirm to hide the photo or video by tapping " Hide photo» 
The media you hide will no longer appear in the Photos and General tabs, as well as in the Camera Roll and My Photo Stream albums. The only place where you can find hidden photos or videos will be the “Hidden” album, available on the “Albums” tab in the Photos application.
Step 1: Go to the stock Photos app
Step 2: On the "" tab Photo» click on the button « Choose" located in the upper right corner 
Step 3. Select all the pictures or videos you would like to hide
Step 4. Click on the button Send» 
Step 5. Select " Hide» and confirm the operation 
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Many standard applications do not meet the requirements modern users, even though Apple developers make them better with each new iOS version. And, it would seem, they do not particularly interfere, but they take up space on the desktop. In this article, we'll look at two ways to hide unused stock apps on iPhone.
In fact, there is no method that would suit all iPhone users. iOS functionality does not allow device owners to hide or delete standard applications, so various tricks must be used. There are currently two such tricks: in the first case, you will need iOS 7.1 or higher installed, and in the second, a jailbreak.
This method is suitable for iPhone owners(and iPad) with installed iOS 7.1 or higher. Why this version? Starting with iOS 7.1, a bug was discovered that allows you to hide any icons until the device is rebooted. Attention: after the “reboot” everything will return to its place.
Step 1: Collect all unused standard applications in one folder
Step 2. Go to one of the desktops of your iOS device and fill all the cells with application icons (the dock should also be filled), and also move the folder with unused applications to this screen
Step 3. Important! At this stage it is necessary to pay the most attention. Create a folder by moving one application to another and immediately, while the animation is running, transfer the folder with unused applications into it. As a result, you should have a new folder with two applications and a folder.
Step 4. Pull both applications back to the desktop, then drag out the folder - it will disappear and cease to be an eyesore
The method is much simpler than described. For clarity, we will publish a video shot by a user who found this small “hole” in iOS.
In order to hide icons of unused applications using the second method, you do not have to do any additional manipulations. All you need is a jailbreak and a HiddenApps tweak from Cydia (you can download it from the repository http://repo.idoodler.de).
After downloading the tweak, you will be asked not only to hide unnecessary application icons, but also to disable advertising banners, run iOS diagnostics, and enter the device into Field Test mode. HiddenApps does not need to be configured - everything works immediately after installation.
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