Hello YouTube. This is Praveen for TechEmpty. Here in this video i will
be showing you the procedure on how you can lock Photos application on iPhone.
You can protect your photos and videos on any iPhone that is having iOS 12 or later version.
Also, it’s totally free and can do without downloading any application from the Appstore.
Without any further ado, let’s see how you can password protect your Photos app on iPhone.
Let me divide the entire tutorial into 3 simple steps.
Step 1: Make a Photos app icon To do this, just screenshot the homescreen
having the photos app and then crop the icon. When done, save it to the Photos.
Alternatively, you can also download the png file of the icon from the google.
Step 2: Lock the Photos App in iPhone
To lock photos and videos on an iPhone, open Shortcuts app.
Tap on + symbol to create a new shortcut and give the shortcut name as Photos.
Now tap on Add action then search for ‘Ask for input’ under scripting.
Now change the ‘Text’ to ‘Number’ and ‘Prompt’ as ‘Enter Password’ then tap on ‘Done’
Now under ‘Next action suggestions’,
choose ‘If’ and change the ‘condition’ to ‘is’ and type the number password. This will be
your password to open Photos application. I’m here entering the password as 1111.
Next is to provide an action to open the photos app. To do that, search for ‘Open
App’ then tap on it. You need to drag this action and place it under ‘if’ condition.
Finally, choose the Open app as Photos.
When someone enters a wrong password, they should get an alert right? So, search for
‘Show alert’ and drag it under ‘Otherwise’ condition and rename the message like you wish.
You are done! The flow chart looks like this.
Step 3: Save the shortcut
To save the shortcut to the homescreen as a photos app, choose ‘settings’ icon
then ‘add to homescreen’
then change the icon to the one that we created at the first step from the albums.
There we have the shortcut just like the Photos app in iPhone. When you try to open it, you will
be asked to enter the password. Without a valid password, you can’t view any photos or videos.
But, you will have two Photos apps now.
You need to hide the original one from the search and homescreen.
So, to remove the app from the homescreen,
long press on the icon, choose ‘edit homescreen’ then tap on ‘remove from homescreen’.
Next removing from the search and siri suggestions. To do that open settings
then choose Photos. Here tap on ‘Siri & Search’ then turn off ‘Show app in search’.
From now on, you don’t find any search results related to the original photos app
on an iPhone and you need to enter the password to open the photos app in iPhone.
By the way, you can find the original photos app from the App Library when you need it.
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