Scenario: You're out with friends. You want to hand your iPhone to a friend to see one particular photo, but you don't want them scrolling through your album! "Aaahh, what else is in here? HaHa" Is there a simple passcode for locking one photo for viewing?
iPhone 6, iOS 12
Yes, sort of...
Bring up the picture of interest and click on the three dots (...) in the upper right. Select "Slideshow". It will only have the one photo and you cannot look at others unless without exiting the slideshow. Also - in your library, if you use "Select" to select multiple photos, you can then do the (...) Slideshow and show that subset.
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You can use "Hide." You could hide all the pictures except the one you want to show. It takes your pass code to see a hidden picture.
Hide photos on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac with the Hidden album - Apple Support
You could select all, de-select one or two, and hide the rest. Pictures in other albums would still be visible.
There may be some difficulty in rounding them up in the Hidden Album. If you don't have any others there, it's easy. Or, if the ones you just hid were all taken at the same time, they should be together. Or, you could "favorite" all the pictures in that album, and then use the Favorites filter in the Hidden Album to gather just the favorites and unhide them.
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Or you could just send them the picture and let them look at it on their own phone…
You could make the photo the lock screen wallpaper. Then your friend will not be able to see anything else.
Is it possible to "Lock" a single photo for viewing in iPhone 13?
