Hidden photos still show in Camera Roll

Isn't it rather stupid that "hidden photos" still appear in the "all photos" folder? What part of "hidden" is not being understood here??? Is there a way to hide the "all photos" folder entirely, from someone randomly picking up my phone and looking at the photos?

Apple has not even tried to implement hiding. It is an intentionally missing feature.

What is called "Hide" in Photos is similar to the "Reject" in Aperture, removing a photo from the view, so only higher rated photos remained visible. There has not even been a Hide command in Aperture. And in iPhoto the Hide command did also not really hide the photos. Anybody could click "Show Hidden Photos" and reveal them or browse the Hidden Photos album.

The Help in iPhoto (http://help.apple.com/iphoto/index.html#pht6d60a948) says something similar to the Help in Photos. Hiding is meant to get photos out of the way, if we are not sure, if we want to delete them outright:

You can hide selected photos in an Event or album, or in a Faces or Places group, and show them only when you want to see them.

Hiding a photo can be useful if you don’t want to use it, but you’re not sure you want to delete it.

Nothing about keeping them secret and away from prying eyes.

In none of Apple's photo application is a method available to keep photos secret, not even in the professional application Aperture. This feature has been requested since Aperture and iPhoto came out, and it is still sorely missed in Photos.

What part of "hidden" is not being understood here??? I

Apple picked amisleading term for the "hiding" feature, as it has been implemented. It is not meant to keep photos secret. Hidden photos will show everywhere - in all alums you add them to and all predefined albums, They are only hidden in "Photos" view with the moments and collections.

It is meant to make the moments smaller by hiding a few photos, without having to delete the photos, because otherwise we do not have any control about the photos in a moment.

If you want to be sure, that certain photos do not appear on the maps, in a slideshow, or similar, move photos you do not want anyone else to see to a different Photos Library.

You can use a 3rd party app on your iPhone to make photos completely hidden from all albums on the phone. I use InVault. When adding a photo to IV it is removed from the Camera Roll. One must sign in to InVault (it accepts the fingerprint method) in order to see them. I have pictures of all my credit cards, drivers license, etc. in InVault in case my wallet is stolen but not my iPhone. You can get it and others like it at the App Store.

When you hide a photo, it will be hidden from the library in Moments, Collections, Years, but be visible in any album. The Camera Roll is an album.

See this user guide page: http://help.apple.com/iphone/9/#/iphf14943e

Hide photos or videos you want to keep but not show. While viewing thumbnails, tap Select, then select the photos or videos you want to hide. Tap , then tap Hide. The photos or videos are moved to the Hidden album.

Note: Photos or videos are hidden from Moments, Collections, and Years, but are still visible in Albums.

If it's still visible it is not hidden.

What do you think this is playing peekaboo with a four-year-old?

How do you hide a picture, regardless of the container?

If it's not possible you're correct answer should be you cannot hide the photo.

Youur explination (while literally correct) is just a deflection.

To "Hide" is a known industry standard definition. If Apple is going to use a term with standard meaning (& Appeture & iPhoto supported this) then the consumers have a rightful expection that the function meets the industry standard meaning.

This is not a feature request. This is a bug

This needs to be exposed so that others are aware of it.

Apple feature requests are hidden and not transparent.

If you want to completely hide photos on your iPhone and keep them out of the Camera Roll or any album you a 3rd party app like InVault. It creates a password protected "album" for the photos that require a 4 digit password or Touch ID. It's great for keeping pictures of your drivers license, social security card, credit cards, etc.

There are quite a few such apps at the App Store.

Definitely hard to believe that such a straightforward and obvious feature has not been implemented yet. A simple "make private" or "hide" button that you can pull up by clicking on the picture, ideally without having to hover over all the different social media icons that give you a panic attack as you imagine accidentally sharing your picture instead. My interim solution is to delete the picture, which then shows up in the recently deleted album, which had no cover. It stays there for 30 days, land you can always recover it and delete again.

I totally agree.

I think the original iPhoto's hide features work the best.

Once a picture is 'hidden', should all be hidden from the camera roll so we have a cleaner rolls.

and then one click we can have all the pictures back.

WHat about on the Photos on Mac. how do we get the same result as in iPhoto which hides pictures in all places with just a switch ?

Photos does not have a similar hiding feature. The "Hide" command in photos only hides the photos from the Moments and Collections, but they will still show in all albums, in the memories, and on the maps. If you want to keep photos secret and to be sure that the photos will not turn up accidentally in a search, keep all potentially critical photos in a separate Photos Library. And keep this library in a separate user account, so a password will be needed to access them. I have all private photos on a separate Mac.

In Photos 2.0 you can hide persons. If a person has been hidden, all photos containing this person will be removed from the Memories.

Baffling why this is still an issue. Hidden photos need to stay hidden everywhere.

Until then, what I did was:

in Photos go to:
View >> Unhide Hidden Album.

All photos will show in one album. Select all.

Drag to a folder on your Mac somewhere hidden several folders deep.

Go back to Photos and right click (control+click) >> Delete Selected Photos.

I just deleted them from Photos entirely, for now.

Went back to All Photos and they are all gone from that folder/stream.

Issue resolved.

A good plan, but I would not use drag and drop to export the photos from Photos.

Drag to a folder on your Mac somewhere hidden several folders deep.

It is safer to use "File > Export > Export unmodified Originals" or at least "File > Export > Export ...photos" and select "Original Size" and a high jpeg quality. Otherwise you will just have saved the JPEG previews of your photos. The quality might be reduced compared to your original photos, because dragging will safe the preview, if the photos has been edited. If you delete the photos from the library, but want to archive them, save the originals of the photos to preserve the best quality.

As I tried to explain - Apple is using the word "Hide" differently from what many users are expecting.

You can temporarily remove photos from Moments by using the Hide command to make it easier to work with Moments and collections. It is necessary to have this tool, because otherwise we can only remove photos from Moments by deleting them from the library. There are no tools in Photos at all to protect photos from accidentally showing them and to keep them secret.

If you need to keep photos secret and locked away, so they will not accidentally turn up in search or a memory, or as places marker on a map, put them into a different Photos Library, in a different user account with a strong password.

Just discovered a workaround for this problem - someone else's idea but I can't remember whose. Open the photo and edit it by cropping to a very small part of the picture. You can then at any time edit again and undo the crop. Works a treat!