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Five ways to hide photos on an Android phone, from Locked Folder to Secure Folder and Private space, and what each one protects against.

Hiding videos works like hiding photos, with three extra things to watch: file size, where your messaging apps save them, and how playback works.

Most phone photos record exactly where they were taken. Here's how to stop that for new photos and strip it from the ones you already have.

A photo of your passport or driving licence in your camera roll is handy and risky. Here's how to keep the convenience and lose the risk.

The .nomedia trick keeps a folder's photos out of gallery apps on Android. Here's how it works and why it isn't real privacy.

Locked Folder, Secure Folder, Private space and vault apps each handle a phone switch differently. Check before you wipe the old one.

Samsung gives you three built-in ways to hide photos: hidden albums, the Private album in One UI 8.5 and Secure Folder. Here's how each works.

Pixel phones can save photos straight into Locked Folder from the camera, and newer ones have Private space. Here's how to use both, and their limits.

Xiaomi's Gallery can hide whole albums in a few taps. Here's how, how to see them again, and why a hidden album isn't the same as a locked one.

WhatsApp saves every photo you receive into your gallery by default. Here's how to turn that off for all chats or just one, and what to do with photos already saved.

There are hundreds of photo vault apps on the Play Store. Six checks, all on the Play Store listing, sort the good ones from the risky ones in a couple of minutes.