Easy step on How To Hide and Unhide Photos on Your Xiaomi Smartphone

Here is an easy way to hide and unhide photos or any file on the Xiaomi smartphone and also how to view and bring it back to the gallery as it used to be. you need to use a password if you want access to the hidden storage area.

Have photos or files that need to keep it secret? Although we are not public figures we also have personal boundaries about it - whatever it may be seen and not, for example when we have a secret project in the works and there are files (not just photos) that should still be secret before it published after all, then hide it is a very reasonable way to do.

This feature is also available and can be applied to other types of Xiaomi smartphones as well, not limited to Redmi Note 3 and it can be used by smartphones from MIUI 7, MIUI 8, or earlier. At the beginning of the use of this feature will ask us to enter the 4-digit number that we use as a master password that is often used to grant permission to such sensitive things as personal user data, when we want to register fingerprints, etc.

And here are the steps or an easy way to hide (hidden) and unhide files in Xiaomi Smartphone

How to hide images or files on Xiaomi Phone

# 1 Select the image(s) or files that you want to hide

Select images or files that you want to hide by marking them in a similar way if you want to send or move one or more images. Until the selection menu appears.

# 2 Select 'Hide' at the options that appear

Select >More then >Hide until you are prompted to enter a master password (4-digit) that you set to lock the phone.

# 3 Enter the 4-digit master password

Enter the four-digit password that is used to provide access to sensitive information like when you are going to add a new fingerprint, change the password, etc. This password is usually made at the time we turn on the smartphone for the first time.

# 4 Create a pattern (pattern-lock)

After entering the four-digit password you will be prompted to create patterns (Pattern-lock) is used to lock the access to those hidden files saved (for the first use are usually asked two times to confirm the use of the new pattern).

Step 3 & 4 only needs to be done during the first attempt, for the next hiding process file will automatically disappear and be stored in a hidden folder.

# 5 Done!

After all the processes are completed then the files will not be seen again in the gallery, as well as when you searched it from the file explorer, they will not be found.

How to View and Unhide File or photos that have been hidden

In addition, to bring back into the gallery as before, it also can be used to check and view files or photos that have been hidden. Here are the steps:

# 1 Go to page Albums

Position the screen on the album which is located in the >Gallery then slide to >Albums

# 2 Drag or Pull down your finger from top to bottom

Pull down or drag your finger or thumb on the screen from the top folder until the pattern lock appears. Do not start dragging too high because if it's too high then you will only open the notification window, rather than the hidden file folder.

# 3 Enter the key Pattern or pattern-lock

Enter the pattern that has been made before, exactly at the time we make hidden files or photos and you will enter the Hidden folder album

If you only want to check photos or files that have been hiding, the tutorial stops in here, but if you want to bring the files back to their original place (unhide) then you should proceed to step #4.

# 4 Select or mark the file

Pick or mark the files or photos that you wanted to appear again in a gallery.

# 5 Select Unhide & Destination Folder

Select >Unhide in the menu that appears and then select the folder where you want to move the image or files. If you want to save in the new folder you can also create a folder directly from that menu by choosing >Create an album after selecting Unhide.

#Done!

Done !!! All files that you hide now have been returned to their original place and can be checked back in the gallery, not in the hidden album.

Hopefully, this tutorial is useful for you guys who are looking for this information about how to hide files or photos on Xiaomi smartphones and also to access and restore (unhide) them to their original place.

If there are any problems as described above you can directly contact us in the comments field below, hopefully, we help you as much as possible, Thanks!

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