Tap on “ Hide Photo” to see what happens. Your iOS device will pop up a warning that explains what’s about to happen: Now you’ll see this set of options:Īs highlighted, you want to choose “Hide”. Tap on the arrow coming out of the box icon on the lower left. You’ve probably used the share feature before, but I’ve highlighted it anyway. I don’t have any racy photos on my iPhone so we’ll just use this decided G-rated image instead: Kind of a half-hearted implementation on Apple’s part, if you ask me (why not have it prompt for a secret PIN code or password?) but… let’s see how it works anyway. Of course, “Hidden” is visible as just another album so if your kids move out of Camera Roll to explore, they’ll see it and be able to view all the “hidden” photos. Every hidden photo automatically vanishes from your Camera Roll, however, and while they are backed up to iCloud, they are apparently “not visible when viewing the library from a web browser” according to a chat group. Basically “Hidden” is a special album that appears if you start hiding photos. So there’s a kind of solution baked into iOS: Hidden photos. Save a photo from an SMS message into your Camera Roll and it’s definitely something your kids can stumble across if, like mine, they use your phone to take photos and then look at them later. Kind of the opposite of what you want, right? Photos in Messages are safe, unless you’re also backing up your messages so you can use them across devices. No? Still want to use Messages to text photos back and forth? Well, okay…įirst off, realize that if you’re using cloud backup services like iCloud as soon as a photo hits your Camera Roll it’s likely to be copied up onto the master backup and possibly then duplicated on other iOS devices that share that account. If you really insist on these sort of photos, however, can I gently suggest something like Snapchat since those photos are automatically deleted from both devices after 24 hours? They tend to hang around forever and while the intention now is pure and innocent (well, maybe not entirely innocent!) it’s hard to predict what’ll happen months or even years down the road. First off, the obligatory warning: R-rated and particularly X-rated photos are really not great to share on digital devices.
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