This is a common problem for all people, as we have some occasional photos in WhatsApp that we do not want to appear in our Android gallery app. Specifically if you’ve such type of friends who use your smart phone to check a photo after which he start swiping all the pictures which you don’t want to show him and definitely it is the most irritating thing sometimes. Right now we will show you a little trick to hide WhatsApp pictures from Android gallery app.
First of all, you will require a very simple Android file manager app such as ES File Explorer, Astro or Total Commander. We are expecting you have already some pictures in your Android WhatsApp folder, however, you can apply this procedure whenever you want to undo this. You don’t require any root access to perform this special trick on your own device.
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Trick To Hide WhatsApp Pictures From Android Gallery App
- Launch the file manager app you have already installed. Currently we’re using the ES File Explorer.
- Go-to to your own Android WhatsApp folder. It is more probable on /sdcard, as in below image below you can see. Click on WhatsApp and after that Media.
- Next you need to go into the WhatsApp images folder and then click “+” icon from bottom-left. It will pop up the New “Add” box where you need to click the “File“.
- Create a new file named .nomedia and the click OK. You will get the message indicating that .nomedia is created.
- Go-to your gallery app where you will find the that the WhatsApp folder has been disappeared without any trace. If this type of freaks gets you out of trouble, all you have to do is just delete the currently created file called .nomedia. The clever among you will see that there’s no file with the name .nomedia inside the WhatsApp images folder. All you have to do is just enable the hidden files from your installed Android file manager. In ES file manager all you need to do is simply tap the small blue colored icon on top-left corner (the globe and phone), then scroll here to find the on/off toggle option to “Show hidden files”. Turn-on this little option.
- Now if you open your WhatsApp images folder you will find the hidden files here. Simply press down the file called .nomedia for long and then delete it. And now the WhatsApp images will appear again in your Android gallery app. Remember to turn-off the hidden files option if you never want to show all of them in every single folder of your Android file manager.
Have you actually some embarrassing photos on your own Android phone then this little trick to hide Whatsapp photo will definitely help you.
