It often happens to us that we have to give our phone to family or friends. We have a lot of images, videos, and files in our phone that we don’t want to show to anyone else. So if you are an Android user you can hide your files and folders so that they can only be opened from the file manager. If you also want to hide your files and folders on your Android phone follow the How to hide files and folders in Android step by step guide.

How to Hide Files and Folders in Android

Method 1: By Creating a Dedicated Folder

In this method a new folder has to be created which will be automatically hidden. And you can store any of your photos, files and videos by name.

Step 1: Open the File Manager app on your smartphone

Step 2: Now Find Create a New Folder Option.

Step 2: Now Find Create a New Folder Option.

Step 3: Now type name of the folder.

Step 4: In order to hide the folder type dot (.) before the name of the folder.

Step 5: Now transfer all the data (images, videos etc) that you want to hide in this folder.

Method 2: Hiding a Folder that is already in Your Mobile

With the help of this method, you can hide an existing folder in your mobile such as DCIM or Whatsapp media folder.

Step 1: Open the File Manager app on your smartphone.

Step 2: Go to that folder that you want to hide.

Step 3: Open the folder and tap the ‘Create New File’ option

Step 4: Enter the file name ‘.nomedia’.
Step 5: Now close the file manager and restart your phone.
Step 6: Thats it your folder will det hidden.

How to access Hidden File and Folder

• Go to the file manager app and select the ‘Show hidden files’ option in the settings.
• Go to the folder location to view hidden folders.
• Delete the ‘.nomedia’ file created in Method 2 from the folder.

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