The short answer
Open Photos, touch and hold the video, tap Hide. It moves to the Hidden album, which needs Face ID or the passcode. For a video that must not reach iCloud or a shared device, move it into Kryptis and delete the original from Photos and Recently Deleted, or record it with the Kryptis camera in the first place.
Hide a video in Photos
- Find the video in Photos.
- Touch and hold it, or open it and tap the three dots.
- Tap Hide and confirm.
To hide the Hidden album itself: Settings, Apps, Photos, turn off Show Hidden Album.
What hiding does not change
- iCloud Photos still uploads the video, and it appears in the Hidden album on every device on your Apple Account.
- It still counts against iCloud storage, and videos are the large part of it.
- It is still in your device backup.
- Anyone with the passcode can open the Hidden album.
Keep a video out of iCloud
Import it into Kryptis, then delete it from Photos and empty Recently Deleted. The vault copy is encrypted on the phone with AES-256-GCM and is not part of iCloud Photos. If you want a backup, Kryptis makes an encrypted file you save to iCloud Drive yourself.
Record straight into the vault
The Kryptis private camera records video directly into the vault, with optional face blur applied to every frame as it records. Nothing is written to Photos, so there is nothing to hide afterwards.
Videos from the web
Downloading a video with a shortcut or a browser puts it in Photos or Files first. Download from Link in Kryptis fetches a public video straight into the vault instead.
