• Hide / Protect files : No Application required

By this trick, you can hide files without use of any application. You can hide media files like Songs/Recordings(Mp3, wav...), Videos(mp4, 3gp, avi...), Images(jpeg, jpg, gif, png...) etc. in your Android Device. This will also helpful to you to protect your private & secret files.

For this trick, you will need a file. ".nomedia" is a file, which is used to hide such media in Android phone. You can get this file by clicking here - Create .nomedia file.

A ".nomedia" file is a blank file, placed inside a folder. When the Android media scanner detects the .nomedia file in any folder, Android media scanner does not scan media files(sound, video & image) from that folder. So the images, songs or videos in that folder don't appear in the Gallery or Video/Music player.

Follow these steps to hide & protect media files:
➧ Firstly, get or create ".nomedia" file.

➧ Open file manager in your Android. Create a new folder or go to your created folder.

➧ Paste your Private Images, Videos, Songs, Call recordings, Recordings etc. in that folder. Means, paste those files in the folder, to which you don't want to display in your gallery.

➧ Paste .nomedia file in that folder. (Click here to create .nomedia file.)

➧ Done!! Those media files will not appear in Gallery, Music Library or Video Player.

Here, such media files are not encrypted or converted in other formats. They are just skipped from scanning by Android. If you use any other kind of "Media Hiding Apps", those apps will encrypt/convert media files & we can't open them directly.

But files, hidden by this trick, will always appears and can be opened in your file manager and other systems. To overcome this problem, place the folder in some other folders with different name.  This will be also one kind of hiding & protecting trick.


[! If you remove .nomedia file from the folder, those files will be appeared in Gallery or Music/Video player. ]
[! Such hidden files will still appear in File Manager and in PC. Those files will be hidden only in Android Gallery & Music Players. ]
[! You cannot hide files like Text file, Documents, Pdf, .apk, etc. by this trick. ]

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