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How to Hide WhatsApp Images & Videos from Gallery

How to Hide WhatsApp Images & Videos from Gallery

How to Hide WhatsApp Images & Videos from Gallery

Because of its amazing features and low cost, smartphones are widely used today. Smartphones are preferred because of the fast Internet, high-quality cameras, video calling, full touch support, high-speed processors and RAM, and mass storage. Chat with your friends via social networking sites and Facebook, IM, and more. All of these messenger apps are free on the Google Play Store, but some are available for a fee.

Whatsapp messenger is still a popular and addictive app. Thanks to the latest features such as phone, chat, file sharing and privacy options, Whatsapp Messenger reduces the cost of calling friends and relatives. With Whatsapp, you can share images with others and receive these images. However, these images will be displayed with regular images from the gallery. Therefore, these images are confused with important images. This is the only best solution to hide the whatsapp image in the gallery. You are also frustrated by these images as you go to the gallery. If so, this article will be used in this article because we will discuss how to limit the image to the phone gallery.

How To Hide Whatsapp Images From Gallery?

Steps for Android phone users.

Step 1. Launch the file manager app on your phone. You can also install other file manager applications on your Android device such as ES File Explorer, Total Commander File Manager 
application etc.

Step 2. Use File Manager to locate the WhatsApp media folder. Home >> SD card >> Whatsapp >> Media.

How to Hide WhatsApp Images & Videos from Gallery

Step 3. In the Media folder, a subfolder named WhatsApp Image appears.

How to Hide WhatsApp Images & Videos from Gallery

Step 4. Rename this folder to .WhatsApp images.

How to Hide WhatsApp Images & Videos from Gallery

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Another way to hide the Whatsapp image from the gallery.

Step 4. Or, you can create a .nomedia file in this folder. You can create a new file by clicking the plus button and selecting the File option.

How to Hide WhatsApp Images & Videos from Gallery


Step 5. After step 4, you open the gallery and you will no longer see the Whatsapp folder. If so, you'll need to clear your app's cache on your Android device. You can clear the cache by going to App 
Manger or Apps >> Clear cache. Do not forget to turn off the Don.t hidden files option.

How to Hide WhatsApp Images & Videos from Gallery


Note: The Android OS is based on the Linux kernel, if we Add '. or period' in front of folder or file name it will become completely invisible.

Steps To Hide Whatsapp Images From Gallery (iPhone Users).

If you're an iPhone user, it's easy to limit the Whatsapp image that appears in the gallery with just a few clicks.

  • Just go to Phone Settings -> Privacy -> Photos -> Untick WhatsApp.
  • If you follow the steps above, the Gallery will not display the WhatsApp image.

How to Hide WhatsApp Images & Videos from Gallery

So these are different ways to easily hide WhatsApp images from the gallery of Android and iPhone. Anyone who knows the best way should share this with us. We will update it soon.

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