Guides: how to hide photos and videos on iPhone

Each guide answers one question about hiding photos or videos on an iPhone. The iOS way comes first, with the exact menu labels, then what a vault app changes, and where neither helps. Nothing here needs Mirage Vault to work.

• How to hide photos on iPhone: the Hidden album, and when you need a vault

  The Hidden album in Photos step by step, what it does not protect, and when a vault app is the better place.

• How to hide videos on iPhone without losing quality

  The Hidden album for videos, its limits, and how a vault keeps videos encrypted without re-encoding.

• Forgot your photo vault password or pattern? What you can still do

  Which doors still open a vault after a forgotten pattern, and why a vault that can be reset is not locked.

• Transfer a photo vault to a new iPhone without losing a photo

  Why an iPhone backup does not carry a vault, and how the recovery phrase restores it from iCloud.

How these guides are written

Every guide names the real buttons: the labels come from iOS itself, not from memory. Where a step was checked on a device, the page says which iPhone, which iOS and when; otherwise it says which versions it was written for. Facts about the app come from its source code, and the limits of hiding photos on an iPhone (screenshots, the Recently Deleted album, a forgotten pattern) are stated, not hidden.

New guides appear about twice a month. If a question about hiding photos on an iPhone is missing, send it; the next guide starts with the questions people actually ask.