By Michael | Last Updated
Android phone becomes more and more popular among people. It offers some functions, such as taking photos, managing emails and even having the online meetings with business. Which used to be some exclusive fields offered by computers and bring more convenience to people's daily lives. But you may also find that many files or stuff are stored in an android phone and it is easy to be viewed by others on purpose or not. So how can we hide or unhide files on Android phone so that we can protect our privacy properly.
If you want to hide numerous files or stuff, you can navigate to the File manager and just create a folder and name it whatever you like. Then you should move all the files you like to hide to this folder and then prefix the name of the folder with a dot. Then the folder would become invisible.
On the contrary, if you have hidden some files and you want to see it again, we recommend you to navigate to the File Manager. And tap MenuSettings. Scroll to the Advanced section and check the Show hidden files option.
Attention: Due to the different versions of Android OS, the detailed steps of hiding or unhiding files would vary.
If you just want to hide some single files or want them to be excluded from Gallery, you can try to move a useless file or junk file to a target folder and rename the useless file name to the name ".nomedia" (alternatively, you can rename an existing target file to the name ".nomedia" ). And the file would be invisible and the folder stored the target file would be excluded from Gallery.
Attention: The method above sometimes just applies to hiding files that are photos and videos. You can still manage the file from File manager cause it is just excluded from Gallery.
What's more, if you want to withdraw the above hidden action, you can still navigate to the file manager and find the target folder, then you can remove the dot from the specified file. After that, you can find the folder be included from the Gallery again.
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