Hide photos in Notes:
Open your gallery and select the photos you wish to keep under lock and key. Tap the upload/share icon on the bottom left corner.
It’ll throw up the option to share to Notes and then Save. Exit and open Notes and look for your saved content — it should appear under the title ‘Saved Photo’.
- Albums > Select photos > Click on the Upload/Share icon
- Select Notes > Save
Next, open the Notes app on your iPhone. Go to this Saved Photo folder and tap the three-dot menu on the upper right of your display to see the Lock option.
It will pull up several choices including the ability to lock your note with a password, Face ID or your iPhone’s unlock code. The drawback is that you can hide only photos (and not videos) using this method.
The Notes app saves a copy of the content you want to hide. So remember to delete it from your Albums after you’ve saved such media to Notes.
Once you’ve deleted it from albums, make sure to also banish it from the oft ignored Recently Deleted section in albums.
- You can change the password settings for locked Notes by going to Settings > Notes > Password.
This will allow you to use your phone’s unlock code, your Face ID or a special password to unlock Notes.