hello everyone!, I assume you all had a great weekend, moreover the first day of work is such a busy day, you must have taken some photos on your smartphone throughout the weekend, nevertheless you will not want to show everyone some of your pics, cause this may reveal something about you that you will not want just anybody to have the knowledge, except more reasonable someone or a family member, or you just wish to keep the photos for your personal views only, you got a new date...? but don't do not want friends and family to know about it, do not remove the photo from your storage simply because you do not want another person to view your pics, no wonder it is said that an image can say a thousand words, that is why i have decided to post this article which explains how you can simply hide your photos from displaying on the gallery. I will not be including any file encryption application Here because it also suspicious, I could recall a mom beign mad at her daughter for encrypting any message alert from the bank, long story though, with that observation, I notice that it is better to hide such files than to make them visible but encrypted, without more talking, the below are three different ways to hide your photos from displaying on any photo viewing app
1. Change image extension:
this is the easiest and quickest way to hide your photos from displaying on your phone image browser, in order to change the file format of an image you need to install a file managing software that supports renaming of file name and it's extension, although most android system file managers supports file extension renaming, all you have to do is open the file manager, locate the folder where the image is situated, now long press the the image so that more options could show, now tap on more option, click on rename then rename the extension only, but not the entire image name but just the extension, from either jpg, png to an invalid image extension. example of an invalid image is .cc, .xyz .cru, zt, .nin and millions more, all you have to do is to look for another character to in place of .jpg and .png, then save.(example if the image name is sevida-garden.jpg rename to sevida-garden.crf, here crf is an invalid image format). Then save
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2. Move the image to data folder:
unlike renaming of image extensions, moving your images to the data folder is a way much easier, if in case the pictures are many, renaming them will be somewhat stressful. to move the image to the data folder simply open the file manager, now tap on android>>data then create a folder with a unique name which you can easily remember, go back to where the image is located now move the image to the folder you previously created. check your gallery the image is gone. This is because smartphones are programmed in such a way that the image browsers will not scan image content in the data folder, it assumes that images in the data folder are part of an application component
Note: the android data folder is not a playground, do not edit or delete any folder you see in there, even if it is an empty folder, if tempered, it may change the behavior of an app on your smartphone.
3. Compress the images:
This is the method I used to hide my medias, compression means bringing together files in a singe place, you can use ES file explore to compress the images , to compress an image open ES file explore go to the image you wish to compress, now long click on it to bring out options, click on more options, then tap on compress,
then save it in either zip or 7z format. now go back and delete the original images from your storage, when ever you wish to view the pictures you go on and unzip the file.
Conclusion:
So as you can see hiding sensitive images from your smartphone is very easy, if you like this post please place your comments or share to your friends on social media.
this is the easiest and quickest way to hide your photos from displaying on your phone image browser, in order to change the file format of an image you need to install a file managing software that supports renaming of file name and it's extension, although most android system file managers supports file extension renaming, all you have to do is open the file manager, locate the folder where the image is situated, now long press the the image so that more options could show, now tap on more option, click on rename then rename the extension only, but not the entire image name but just the extension, from either jpg, png to an invalid image extension. example of an invalid image is .cc, .xyz .cru, zt, .nin and millions more, all you have to do is to look for another character to in place of .jpg and .png, then save.(example if the image name is sevida-garden.jpg rename to sevida-garden.crf, here crf is an invalid image format). Then save
click here to download ES file explore
2. Move the image to data folder:
unlike renaming of image extensions, moving your images to the data folder is a way much easier, if in case the pictures are many, renaming them will be somewhat stressful. to move the image to the data folder simply open the file manager, now tap on android>>data then create a folder with a unique name which you can easily remember, go back to where the image is located now move the image to the folder you previously created. check your gallery the image is gone. This is because smartphones are programmed in such a way that the image browsers will not scan image content in the data folder, it assumes that images in the data folder are part of an application component
Note: the android data folder is not a playground, do not edit or delete any folder you see in there, even if it is an empty folder, if tempered, it may change the behavior of an app on your smartphone.
3. Compress the images:
This is the method I used to hide my medias, compression means bringing together files in a singe place, you can use ES file explore to compress the images , to compress an image open ES file explore go to the image you wish to compress, now long click on it to bring out options, click on more options, then tap on compress,
then save it in either zip or 7z format. now go back and delete the original images from your storage, when ever you wish to view the pictures you go on and unzip the file.
Conclusion:
So as you can see hiding sensitive images from your smartphone is very easy, if you like this post please place your comments or share to your friends on social media.
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