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Oppo: Hide Photos or Videos in the Gallery

If a photo or video keeps showing up in your gallery even though you want it out of sight, ColorOS does not let you hide entire albums. Instead, single photos and videos get marked as private and disappear from normal browsing. Getting them back means digging into a separate area that is protected by your lock screen password, fingerprint, or face recognition.

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ColorOS does not offer a way to hide whole albums in the Gallery app. What it offers instead is a private mode for individual photos and videos, which removes them from normal browsing without deleting anything.

To mark items as private, open the Gallery and tap on Photos. Tap and hold a photo or video until it gets selected, then, if needed, tap on additional items you want hidden. Finally tap on Set as private.

Once a photo or video is set as private, it disappears from the main gallery grid and from any album it was part of. It only reappears in a hidden area that you reach by pressing and holding the tabs bar at the bottom of the Gallery app.

Opening that area asks for your lock screen or privacy password, or for fingerprint or face recognition, depending on what you have set up on the device. This keeps the content away from anyone who just swipes through your gallery.

If you only want to keep something out of a shared album without fully hiding it from yourself, moving the file to a different album might work better than using private mode, since private items are harder to find quickly.

Frequently asked questions

No. ColorOS Gallery only supports marking individual photos or videos as private. Albums themselves cannot be hidden as a whole.