How To Hide Important Files And Folder In Android Without Any App

We are going to explore the trick on how to hide important files and folder in your Android OS without installing any app. The trick will help you secure your very precious files and folders.

There are instantly million  of a user who  are using android now. And android is the platform which implements more features than any other operating system. Now in this post, i am going to tell you How To Hide Files & Folder In Android. We all require privacy in our contents. As there are many media like our personal pictures, videos and recording which we never want to share with any other person.

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But we do share our phone with our friends, family members and natives for some of the reasons. And at that time, our privacy gets in emergency and we perpetually want something that secures our content and only we can access our content. So in this post, i will tell you the method to hide files and folder in your android. With that, you can easily hide selective files and folder which you don’t want to share with other.

How To Hide Important Files And Folder In Android Without Any App

How To Hide Files And Folder In Android 2015

To hide data in android follows the steps given below:-

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1. Mostly every android has file explorer in it, but if you don’t have any I recommend you to download Es File Explorer in your android device. Now open your file explorer or file browser.

2. Now search or find your file or folder which you want to hide from others.

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3. Now select the file or folder and click on rename option.

4. Now there add “.” at the start of the name .(For ex if the folder is videos then rename it as .rename ).

5. As we know our android is Linux based and it will think that this is system file and it will hide that file by default settings of the operating system. Now if you want to open that file or folder then just select Show hidden Files/folder option in your file explorer.

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6. If you want to make that hidden file unhidden back then just rename the file by removing “.” from the name.

7. By this, all your files and folder which you have renamed will get hide from your file explorer and in your gallery too. And this will defend your data permanently in your android. And you will have no longer tension of illegal access to your content.