{"id":8511,"date":"2023-01-02T17:06:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T21:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=9583"},"modified":"2023-01-05T07:37:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T11:37:20","slug":"protect-your-hidden-and-recently-deleted-albums-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/protect-your-hidden-and-recently-deleted-albums-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect Your Hidden and Recently Deleted Albums in Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photos has long provided a <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT205891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hidden album<\/a> you could use to hold images you wanted to keep a little more private. Until this year, however, it was security through obscurity: anyone who knew to reveal the album in Settings &gt; Photos on an iPhone or iPad or by choosing View &gt; Show Hidden Album on the Mac could see its contents. Now you can protect it\u2014and the Recently Deleted album\u2014with Face ID or Touch ID on an iPhone or iPad, or Touch ID or your password on a Mac. You can enable this feature in iOS 16 or iPadOS 16 using Settings &gt; Photos &gt; Use Face ID\/Touch ID; in macOS 13 Ventura, choose Photos &gt; Settings &gt; General and select \u201cUse Touch ID or password.\u201d From then on, opening those albums will require authentication.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9577\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/protect-your-hidden-and-recently-deleted-albums-in-photos.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/protect-your-hidden-and-recently-deleted-albums-in-photos-1.png 980w, https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/protect-your-hidden-and-recently-deleted-albums-in-photos-2.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\"><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by iStock.com\/Kenishirotie)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos has long provided a hidden album you could use to hold images you wanted to keep a little more private. Until this year, however, it was security through obscurity: anyone who knew to reveal the album in Settings &gt; Photos on an iPhone or iPad or by choosing View &gt; Show Hidden Album on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,112,185,384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8524,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions\/8524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}