With the increasing trend of smartphones, people are increasingly using mobile handsets to consume multimedia content on the go right on their device. Whether it is the photos, videos or movies etc, handsets are more portable and easy to deliver it no matter where ever you are and what you are doing.
But many a times we don’t want everyone to have access to some of our pics or videos or any file. Keeping it private and hidden from file managers and gallery is the best thing to do, and there are some apps that will help you keep all your personal content secure and hidden from others even if them get access to your device.
Here’s how to hide photos, videos and files on android smartphone
1. Hide pictures in Vaulty
This app is one of the most downloaded android photo hiding app, It allows you to hide videos and photos effortlessly. It can act as a gallery of hidden pics and videos with option to zoom in and out pics, play slide show, multi selection, picture editing. The app encrypts the pictures and videos which are not visible to file managers.
The app has option to show who tries to get access to your pics, you can share pictures and videos and set password for login.
Developer: Squid Tooth LLC
Availability: Free on Google play
2. Hide pictures- KeepSafe Vault
With over 5 million downloads, this app has a clean user interface. The app can hide photos and videos with a master pin setup to get access to your hidden stuff. The app allows you to add pics from Facebook to keep safe. It can hide folders and directly share pics from KeepSafe to your friends. The app also acts as a galley with full screen viewing, slide show feature, multi select feature.
- The app also has special features like safe send, you can send personal pictures with your friends for a limited time.
- Fake pin can make your personal pics and videos more secure by creating a dummy account with another pin which you can open if someone forces you to do so.
Availability: Free on google play, paid version available
3. Hide it Pro
One of my favorite app with over 1 million downloads, this app has so much to offer apart from hiding capabilities. The app works in disguised mode in the app drawer as audio manager. It works as fully functional audio manager that will turn into a multi-purpose file hiding app as soon as you long press the title. You can easily hide pics, videos by just hitting the sharing option and selecting audio manager to share.
The app has option to create custom folders to keep the personal pics and videos sorted. The app uses 256 bit AES encryption to protect personal data. It also has inbuilt video player, gallery, options to change lock screen, private browsing, messaging and calls and locking apps.
Developer: Anuj Tenani
Availability: Free on google play
4. Advanced Mobile Care
From the developers of the renowned software advanced system care for PC platform, IOBIT has now arrived on android with a multi-purpose security app.
The app has features like system tune up, game speeder, battery saver, app manager, task manager, privacy adviser backup manager with widgets. This app also has a privacy locker to hide pictures, videos and files with a password with a clean and fluid user interface and the file hiding feature works well.
Developer: IOBIT Mobile security
Availability: Free on google play
5. File Hide Pro
This app has 2 different apps, tip calculator and file hide expert. The app disguises as tip Calc in the app drawer giving no clue that you are using some software to hide files. Once you open tip calculator, you can long press the title to open file hide expert which is password protected.
The app can hide any picture, audio, video or folders. You can enable or change the password to make sure privacy and protection of all your personal pics, videos or folders.
The app is fast and reliable. You can toggle the status from hidden to visible or vice versa.
Developer: Emily Smith
Availability: Free on Google play