Hide Files on Android Without Application

To hide personal files not always require third-party applications. Just follow the following ways to do so.

How often do you use your Android smartphone? Do you use it only for communication among friends only or use it also as a store of personal files that you have? If you are a user with a custom mobile diperangkat storing personal files, of course, need extra attention in treating the gadget. You can choose to always hold it tightly in your hand, or use a third party application that offers features folder lock. Two choices that often appears as an answer when asked on the user how they treat their gadgets when there are personal files in it. In fact the options that you have not just two, but three with the inherent features of the Android phone itself as the choice of your options.


Smartphone. As the name that smart phones, Android smartphone turns offering their own version of security for the user. Such as desktop computers, files or folders on Android smartphones and tablets can also be hidden. Interestingly, hide files or folders on Android smartphones and tablets can also be done without the help of the application. If you are interested to try it, please follow these steps below:

1 The first way:
• You must create a new folder as a repository of files you want disembunykan.
• Next, start the name of the folder that you created earlier with a dot. You are free to name the folder anything you want to hide but do not forget to start the name with a dot. (It should be noted, only a file manager and system application that can recognize certain folders. Accordingly, the folder will not appear in the gallery, multimedia, e-mail clients or others.)

2 The second way:

You can also hide media files that already exist in the folder. For the second way is you just need to create a new file in the folder with the name ".nomedia", without the quotes. In this way all the media files such as photos and videos will be hidden from the various applications that would like to recognize the contents of the file.