How to Hide your files and folders without any Third Party App

Using third party app was always & is thread to security of your system. Yes, there are lot of third party app which are trust worthy but it's your files, trusting third party app is risky.

In fact it's so simple, you don't need to waste memory of your phone on such apps.

Steps for hiding files are:-

1. Open file manager, select folder of files which you want to hide.
2. Rename the folder with ' . '(full stop) at the beginning.

The files will be hidden and won't be visible in Galary

Steps for unhiding files are:-

1. Select the folder (if not found, find show hidden files option).
2. Rename & remove full stop at the beginning.

In third party apps if you turn on phone in safe mode then these apps don't work and files will be seen but folders hidden by this method won't be visible even in safe mode. In case, you delete the app by mistake, files will be gone. So, it's better to use this method to hide the files.

You can try to retrieve the files that were hidden by those app by using the unhide procedure