So your hidden files, pictures and apps with Android

So your hidden files, pictures and apps with Android

Smartphones are our half life in itself, they are however hardly impregnable fortresses. With this apps you secures your data and privacy in three stages: apps hide, hide files, encrypt files. We have revised our overview and added to new versions of the app.

The best photo gallery apps for Android
The best Android apps
Table of contents
Hide pictures
Prevented
Andrognito
Smart hide calculator
Conclusion
Hide Pictures - hide it Pro hidden your photos - and yourself
The smartest hiding places are the ones which even disguise themselves and not to divulge. Hide it reveals himself as Audio Manager and works even as such. But if you hold the lettering at the top, get in the back room and comes to an app to hide images.

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Hide Pictures reveals himself not as the image hiding app. The "Audio Manager" lettering is the back door to your photo's secret lair. / © ANDROIDPIT
First you have to set a numerical code or a password in the app, after which you want to hide your files. You must type in the code later if you want to open the app, or enter the back door. A login is not required, but it is useful to specify the email address if you forget the code once.

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And Zack, the picture is hidden. Eric no longer appears in the file manager. / © ANDROIDPIT
With the app images to hide, you type in the main menu on pictures, then click an album and then only top right on the +-symbol. All photos and screenshots are displayed you. Taps on all the images that you want to hide so that they are blue. Then below type to hide selected files to hide the images in the app.

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Left you can see the gist: Hide Pictures hidden pictures and hidden photos right back here. / © ANDROIDPIT
To remove the pictures from the Hideout and to make visible in the normal store, you type long on an image, and then click Unhide. Then type on the small blue folder icon right next to the path and best/storage/emulated/0/DCIM/camera/or similar selects, so that the image on your other photos ends up.

What we like, is the Durchdachtheit of this image hiding app. It runs at no point in the background. A tap of the home button is enough to delete it completely from the short-term memory of your Smartphone. Overview the app, you can not get back, so that one must always have the Audio Manager to approach them. Also if you are leave your pictures safe open, and the Smartphone after a few seconds the app when you wake your smartphones idle, the screen turns off, is no longer visible. This is smart and very commendable.

Hide photos - hide it Pro
Install on Google play
Prevented
Prevented allows you to block certain areas or apps of your smartphones via password or pattern. This is especially useful for users who have no desire to lock their homescreen. You will find a collection of all the applications on the device in the main menu and there you can set which should be password-protected and which are not. You can also lock, for example the company calls phone functions. Finally, there are a lot of possibilities for customization, whereby you are reserved in this case mainly the paid premium version.

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Prevented / © screenshots: ANDROIDPIT
Shooters (prevented)
Install on Google play
Andrognito
This app is not only useful, it's also pretty. Held in a modern, fresh flat design, she hid files behind a password. Andrognito itself is protected by a four-digit PIN, which backs up files is a 3-layer encryption. Here you can pictures, documents, videos, apps and more hiding. Also, Andrognito is not displayed in the recently opened apps.

To hide a file, open the app and create a safe, if you have set up any. Then, you can add individual files. In the corresponding entry, you must press longer on the file and then add them to the safe. You all got together for hiding files, you encrypt your selection with the button in the action bar to the bottom of the display. In Andrognito you can access the encrypted files. Other apps, however, see no more of the files.

However, the app in the app drawer is visible under your own name at the factory. The invisible mode must be activated manually, changes and causes that you can just open the app by you enter your PIN on the dial the phone app. Andrognito is freely available in the play store, calls for some features but an in-app purchase, which currently 3.94 euros (stand: may 2016).

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Andrognito / © screenshots: ANDROIDPIT
Andrognito 2
Install on Google play
Smart hide calculator
While the aforementioned apps content encrypt or hide, hide calculator goes smart a step further in his camouflage. He pretends to be: discreet, fully functioning calculator. The app opens your password you can enter there and you will get in your vault. Here you will find all hidden files. They can have all imaginable formats. If you want to hide but all apps, root privileges are required. The advantage of this app: To access the hidden content, you must visualize not only again this as in the case of Andrognito. Instead, you create a secure area in which your whole normal can interact with the data, but is protected from outside access. Disadvantage appears at Smart hide calculator that you get out files no longer easily from the vault.

Smart hide calculator
Smart hide calculator / © screenshots: ANDROIDPIT
Smart hide calculator
Install on Google play
Conclusion
There are a number of reasons, to hide files. Depending on the intended use, the apps presented here play their strengths. You want to just protect files from unauthorized access, Andrognito makes a good figure. This app encrypts your files and displays them in a clear surface. However, Andrognito makes no secret of the fact that the application is installed.

Have to also hide that you installed a hiding-app, you can you hide calculator with the smart or deal with Hide Pictures, where Hide Pictures in total appears as the more flexible solution. Prevented in turn is the complete package, with which you can protect files and apps from prying eyes.

Finally, you can encrypt of course all data on your phone. We have described how that works.

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