You Can Password-Protect Your Private Photos on Your iPhone. Here's How - CNET

For immoderate reason, you mightiness manus implicit your iPhone oregon iPad to idiosyncratic truthful that they tin spell done your camera roll. Maybe you're showing disconnected photos from a caller abrogation to a household subordinate oregon a comic video you downloaded to a person -- but past you recognize that determination are immoderate backstage photos oregon videos that they mightiness scroll to. And you panic.

Of course, you could've deleted the photos oregon videos earlier you adjacent handed implicit your phone, but there's different mode to support your privacy. Instead, you tin usage a password to support your embarrassing oregon idiosyncratic photos oregon videos successful conscionable a fewer seconds, acknowledgment to a caller privateness feature. Here's what you request to know.

For this to work, you'll request to beryllium updated to astatine slightest iOS 16. Check retired how to download and instal the latest mobile bundle update to the iPhone. And you tin besides instrumentality a look astatine some of the champion hidden features connected iOS 16, arsenic good arsenic caller large features similar Live Activities.

Use a password to defender your delicate photos and videos connected iOS 16

Note that you won't beryllium password-protecting your photos and videos individually. Instead, you'll beryllium transferring them to an album, wrong your camera roll, that's locked with a password. 

To password-protect your photos and videos, archetypal motorboat the Photos exertion and past find the photograph oregon video you privation to support private. You tin bash this individually, for a azygous photograph oregon video, oregon usage the Select fastener astatine the apical to prime aggregate photos and videos astatine once. Once your photos and videos are selected, pat the three-dot paper icon and hit Hide.

If you're lone hiding a azygous photograph oregon video, you'll find the three-dot paper connected the top-right.

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This volition region the photos and videos from your existent room and transportation them implicit to the Hidden medium (you tin find it astatine the bottommost of your albums, nether Utilities). By default, the Hidden medium is locked connected iOS 16, truthful immoderate photos and videos successful that folder tin lone beryllium viewed with your passcode oregon Touch/Face ID.

Your Recently Deleted medium is besides password-protected.

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If you ever privation to bring your Hidden medium photos oregon videos backmost to your regular photograph library, spell into the Hidden album, prime your photos and videos, pat the three-dot paper fastener and deed Unhide.

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