The eyes may be the window to your soul, but your iPhone is the peephole into your daily life. Who you contact, which apps you use, which selfies you snap — it’s all right there. It’s very possible that your iPhone has been safeguarded with a Touch ID, or maybe you've set up a crazy-complicated passcode. But still, there are probably some rather private things on there you'd prefer people didn't find out when your phone is unlocked. Since Apple hasn't yet added a special iPhone guest mode, if you care about your privacy, it’s worth taking some simple steps to protect it.
Here are 7 easy ways to hide photos, embarrassing app notifications, and a bunch of other secrets in plain sight on your iPhone.
1. Hide private pics in your gallery
Everyone likely has a few photos sitting on their iPhone they’d rather nobody else see, whether it’s embarrassing selfies, poorly filtered or edited pics, a picture of a receipt or personal paperwork, or anything else in the range of private photos. Here's the deal:
1) Open Photos and go to Camera Roll or Albums as usual
2) Select the photo or video that you want to hide
3) Tap on the share button in the bottom left, and select "Hide"
4) Confirm that you want to hide the photo or video.
This will hide the selected item from Collections, Years, and Moments -- which means it won't show up as you scroll through recent photos -- but it will still be visible via the Albums tab.
2. Stash extremely secret stuff inside an app
If your select pics or vids require some next-level, White House-style security, there are some good apps designed for sneakily stashing private things that shall not be found. The best I've found is called Private Zone. It allows you to hide personal staff on both iOS and Android and set a lock in multiple ways: with a password, pattern, or even a faked cover that can hardly be unlocked. What’s more, you can hide your personal files, audios, e-books, and even Apks beside photos and videos.
3. Use the Notes app to lock up sensitive documents and info
Not every iPhone default app is a total waste of space. Case in point: Notes is exceptionally helpful for staying organized. Thanks to a recent iOS update, you can also use it to protect information and the drafts of your secret Game of Thrones fanfiction novel behind a unique passcode or Touch ID. With the note in question open, hit the share button, select "Lock Note," and follow the prompts.
4. Get rid of potentially damning text messages individually
It's easy to delete entire text conversations, but it's also suspicious. What if you just want to expel a certain salacious or potentially incriminating section of a conversation? Here's how to do it: open the message, tap and hold on the text in question, and tap "More" when the pop-up appears. Here, you have the option to select any of the included messages (from any party involved) and trash them individually. Sneaky? Sure. Brilliant? Absolutely.
5. Edit your recent call history
Who hasn't stayed up all night with a 1-800 hotline psychic once or twice in their life, hmm? Erase the memory of specific calls by tapping the "Recent Calls" tab and swiping right to delete the incriminating evidence.
6. Turn off select lock-screen notifications
Tinder messages, Neko Atsume updates, and other embarrassing notifications always pop up on your screen at the most inopportune moments. In fact, you can control which apps do what when your phone is locked, so hide that shit! Go to Settings > Notifications and scroll to the offending app(s) and uncheck "Show on Lock Screen."
Bonus tip: when you're in the company of others and you don't want them to see who's texting you, you can set it so that it simply reads "New Text Message" on the screen instead of the contact's name. From the Notifications settings menu, select Messages and uncheck "Show Previews."
7. Keep your Safari search habits private
If you want to keep your search history on the DL, you'd best be browsing in the private mode so that there's no tracking what you've been up to. Here is how to enable it.
1) Tap the New Window icon in the bottom-left corner of Safari,
2) Select Private
3) Hit the plus sign in the bottom center.
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