iCreate - UK (2019-08)

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Step-by-step Password-protect photos in Notes

1

Enable Notes settings

Go to Settings>Notes and then turn on

the ‘“On My iPhone” Account’ option, tap

‘Password’ and use set to ‘Use Touch ID’ or

set a new password.

2

Locate and share

Open your Photos app and find the

image you wish to hide, then tap on the

share icon and choose ‘Add to Notes’. Now

open your Notes app to find it.

3

Lock down note

Finally, open the photo note, tap on the

share icon and then choose the ‘Lock Note’

option and then enter the password. Now

delete the image from your Photos app.

Hide personal photos

using Notes

A

s you may or may not be aware, you can

‘hide’ personal photos on your iPhone

by tapping the share icon, selecting

the image and then choosing the ‘Hide Photo’

option. However, this only moves the photo to the

‘Hidden’ folder within the Albums section, which

in theory can still be accessed by someone else.

But there is a far more secure way to keep your

most precious images under lock and key using

the Notes app.

By attaching a photo to a note, as outlined in

this tutorial, you can then password-protect the

note itself to add a secondary line of defence

(behind whatever method you use to lock your

iPhone). For the highest level of security, you

will also need to ensure that the photo note isn’t

automatically backed up to iCloud by moving it

to your iPhone (see Knowledge Base) and then

deleting the original from your Photos library.

Go further than ‘hiding’ images in the Photos app

by locking them down in Notes instead!

Move note to your iPhone

If iCloud is your default Notes account then

you should move it to your ‘On Your iPhone’

account by tapping the ‘Edit’ button in the

top-right corner of the iCloud Notes screen,

selecting the note with the photo in and then

tapping ‘Move To...’ and selecting ‘Notes’

under the ‘On My iPhone’ section.

Knowledge base