Hide your photos and videos on iCloud.com (2024)

FAQs

Hide your photos and videos on iCloud.com? ›

In Photos on iCloud.com, select the photos or videos you want to hide, or double-click a single photo or video. , then click Hide.

If you have enabled iCloud Photos, then iCloud will back up and sync all your photos from the device to the cloud, including hidden photos. That's to say, if you don't enable iCloud Photos, then hidden photos won't be backed up to the cloud, so they won't be included in iCloud Backup.

Go to Settings > Accounts > iCloud. Under Photos, press Select to turn off iCloud Photos.

You can hide a photo or video if you want to store it in iCloud Photos but don't want it to appear in your library.

You can also create a public shared album. Anyone who has the link can view the album, even if they don't use iCloud. Although shared albums are stored in iCloud, they don't count toward your iCloud storage.

iCloud Photos automatically keeps every photo and video you take in iCloud, so you can access your library from any device, anytime you want. Any changes you make to your collection on one device change on your other devices too. Your photos and videos are organized into Years, Months, Days, and All Photos.

Does deleting photos from iPhone delete from iCloud? ›

However, if you have enabled iCloud Photos (previously known as iCloud Photo Library), deleting a photo from your iPhone will also remove it from iCloud and all other devices connected to your iCloud account. This ensures that your photos are synced across all your devices.

Everything stored in iCloud, including iCloud photos, is securely encrypted in transit and stored with encryption keys. Encryption keys are stored on Apple's servers. Without these encryption keys, files can not be decrypted. Apple also uses “end-to-end” encryption for data.

Open Settings from your iPhone homescreen and tap your name. On the Apple ID screen, select iCloud > Photos. Use the toggle switch for Sync this iPhone to disable syncing. With the connectivity between iPhone and the iCloud disabled, you can safely delete photos from your iPhone.

After your originals have downloaded, you can turn off iCloud Photos and new changes such as uploads of new photos, edits and deletions will no longer be synced across your devices.

Disabling iCloud Drive will stop syncing files to your device, potentially freeing up storage space. However, keep in mind that any files already synced to your device will remain unless you choose to delete them.

No one else can access your end-to-end encrypted data — not even Apple — and this data remains secure even in the case of a data breach in the cloud. If you lose access to your account, only you can recover this data, using your device passcode or password, recovery contact, or recovery key.

When you delete a photo or video from Photos on iCloud.com, it's also deleted from all your devices that have iCloud Photos turned on. If you change your mind, you have 30 days to recover it before it's permanently deleted.

Hidden photos are moved to the Hidden album. You can't view them anywhere else. To turn off the Hidden album so it doesn't appear in Albums, go to Settings > Photos, then turn off Show Hidden Album.

Yes, hidden photos will transfer to the new iPhone.