For convenience and convenience, the photo gallery of a phone is always kept close at hand, on the main screen of the smartphone, so you can see the latest photos taken without having to search for the application. The problem with the photo gallery is that it contains all the images in the phone memory, including those received with Whatsapp or with other chats such as Kik Messenger, Viber, Facebook Messenger etc.
Therefore, if someone picks up our phone, they could easily find private or intimate photos that it would be better to hide instead.
To avoid this problem, we saw in another article the best applications to hide photos, videos, files and folders, protecting private data also with passwords or passwords.
Much more simply, however, if the goal is to hide photos and videos from the main gallery of apps like Google Photos, there is a trick that works on all Android phones, very simple and without contraindications.
The steps to avoid that some photos are shown in the gallery of the Samsung Galaxy or Huawei or any other Android smartphone and also on Google Photos, are as follows.
First of all, you have to use an app to browse your phone's files and folders.
You can then use the pre-installed file manager, or ES File manager or the one I use, Solid File Explorer, free and complete.
Then open the File Manager on the device and create, on the SD card if available or on the internal memory, a new folder, giving it the name you prefer, perhaps an unsuspected name (not " Hidden " as in the image above).
Open the new folder you just created, tap the + button (in some apps it's the button with three dots at the top right), choose the option to create a new empty file by giving it the name .nomedia .
The task of this empty file is to prevent all photos and videos in the same folder from being hidden by Gallery applications, including Google Photos too (although it may not work on the default Gallery app of some phones).
To complete the operation, therefore, you must move, always using the file manager, all the photos you want to hide (which should be found in the DCIM folder) in this special folder, the one in which we created the .nomedia file.
The trick is very effective, above all, to hide images and videos of Whatsapp or other applications from the Android gallery .
For Whatsapp, for example, you have to go to the Whatsapp Images folder and create the .nomedia file inside it .
About Google Photos, there is also a new feature introduced on Android in the latest update.
Press and hold on a photo or select a group of images and videos, then tap the button of the three dots at the top right to find the Archive option and hide all the selected elements from the main gallery.
Archived photos and videos can be found in the Archive section, visible in the main menu.
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