Hiding photos and albums
You can further protect sensitive photos or albums by hiding them. Hidden photos or albums are only viewable after an extra layer of authentication inside the app.
Hiding differs from Archiving in that hidden content won't appear anywhere in the app without explicit authentication, whereas archiving only removes items from the home timeline and memories sections.
Hidden photos and albums will be removed from home timelines, memories, albums tab, search results, and any other visible place in the app.
Hidden photos will be removed from all regular albums. If you want to unhide again you will have to specify the album to move it to.
You can hide an album shared with you, but you can't hide an individual photo shared with you.
How to
Hide album
- Open the album
- Click the overflow menu (three dots)
- Select Hide album
Hide photo
- Select the photo
- Tap/click Hide from the selection menu
View hidden photos and albums
On mobile:
- Go to the Albums tab
- Scroll to the bottom
- Tap Hidden
- Authenticate with biometrics or passcode
On web/desktop:
- Click the menu icon (three horizontal lines) at top left
- Select Hidden
- Authenticate with your Ente password
Unhide album
- Open the hidden album
- Click the overflow menu (three dots)
- Select Unhide album
Unhide photo
- Select the hidden photo
- Tap/click Unhide from the selection menu
- Select the album to restore the photo to
Clean up hidden (mobile only)
On the mobile app, you can perform cleanup actions on your hidden files:
- Clean up hidden files: Some files in hidden albums may still exist in non-hidden albums, making them visible outside of the hidden section. This will remove them from non-hidden albums.
- Delete hidden files from device: Delete local copies of hidden files from your device.
Note: If you use "Clean up hidden files" and it acts on an album shared with you, the files from that album that you own will remain in the hidden section even after you unhide the shared album. You will need to manually move them from hidden to the album you want them in.
These options appear at the top of the Hidden section, and are only visible when there are files that the action can be performed on.
Metadata Privacy
Ente has no information about whether you have hidden a photo or album.