Guides

Updated 2026-10-28 · By THEORIST LLC, the company that makes Hushtrove

Practical answers about keeping photos private on iPhone, in iOS 26 and iOS 27. Every claim about Apple or another app links to that company's own page, with the date we read it.

• How to hide photos on iPhone

  Every built-in method in iOS 26 and iOS 27, what each one stops, and when a vault app helps.

• Is the iPhone Hidden album private?

  What the Hidden album keeps out of sight, and where hidden photos still show up.

• How to remove location from a photo on iPhone

  The share-sheet switch, No Location, and turning off location for the Camera.

• Hidden album vs locked apps vs Notes vs a vault

  One table: what opens each, iCloud and Shared Library, videos, cost, and what each is best for.

• Best private photo vault apps for iPhone (2026)

  Seven options compared on eight stated criteria, with sources. Hushtrove is our app.

• Hushtrove vs Keepsafe

  Account, privacy label, backup and features, sourced from Keepsafe's own pages.

• A Private Photo Vault alternative

  Privacy label, ads, backup and plans compared, sourced from its own pages.

• Is Keepsafe safe?

  Only Keepsafe's own words: its privacy label, privacy policy and help center.

• Calculator vault apps: what they hide and what they don't

  What the disguise hides, what still shows, and what to check behind it.

• How to move a photo vault to a new iPhone

  The safe order for any vault app, how the big ones back up, and Hushtrove's iCloud restore.

• Screenshot protection on iPhone: what apps can and can't block

  Screenshots, recordings, mirroring and the second camera: what apps can block.

• Decoy vaults: what they fool and what they don't

  Who a second passcode fools, who it doesn't, and what duress modes do.

How we write these

• Sources first. Facts about iPhone come from Apple Support and Apple's developer documentation; facts about other apps come from their own App Store pages, websites and policies. Each guide lists its sources with the date we read them.
• "Not stated" isn't "missing". If a company doesn't say something, we say so instead of guessing.
• We make Hushtrove. Where a guide mentions our app, it says so, and comparisons apply the same criteria to every app, ours included.
• Corrections are welcome. Email support@hushtrove.com and we'll fix mistakes and update the date.