Google simply rolled out a brand new characteristic in Google Photos that may assist you disguise your delicate pictures from prying eyes.
Available first on Pixel gadgets and coming later this 12 months to extra Android gadgets, the brand new Locked Folder permits you to retailer photographs that you just don’t need anybody to see. The photographs saved there are protected by your machine display lock passcode and gained’t present up in your Photos grid, reminiscences, or be out there to different apps which have entry to your digicam roll.
Here’s the best way to set up the Google Photos Lock Folder on a Pixel.
Open Google Photos. Tap on Library, Utilities, then Locked Folder.
Tap Set up Locked Folder. Next, unlock your machine with both your fingerprint or your PIN. If you don’t have already got a passcode, you’ll must go create one first.
On Pixel telephones, it can save you photographs on to a Locked Folder. Open the Camera app, faucet on Photo Gallery, then on Locked Folder. If you retain Locked Folder on, all of the photographs you are taking might be saved there.
If you wish to transfer photographs to the Locked Folder out of your digicam roll, choose the photographs you wish to retailer there. In the highest proper, faucet the More icon and choose Move to Locked Folder. Then faucet Move. Just one thing to remember: If you’ve been storing these photographs within the cloud, they’ll be deleted. The Locked Folder retains your delicate photographs in your machine the place nobody can see them.
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It’s nonetheless unclear if Google plans to convey the characteristic to Google Photos for iOS, although Apple has its personal method to disguise photographs by way of a Hidden Folder on the iPhone.
The draw back is that you could’t again up photographs saved within the Locked Folder, however that trade-off could also be price it.
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