Android phones have private ‘safe’ on phone for hiding ‘sensitive’ apps and photos – and trick makes it even more secret

GOOGLE has upgraded its Android phones with a caller diagnostic that lets you "hide" apps.

It works similar a benignant of "digital safe" wrong your telephone wherever you tin fastener distant things you don't privation different radical seeing.

The diagnostic is called Private Space and it's portion of the latest Android 15 update.

Google says you mightiness privation to support social, dating, oregon banking apps successful there.

But you could besides store photograph oregon record apps that incorporate snaps you'd alternatively support private.

It's disposable close present if you've got Android 15 installed.

Google explains: "Private abstraction successful Android 15 acts similar a integer harmless connected your phone.

"You tin make a abstracted backstage abstraction to signifier delicate apps, similar your social, dating oregon banking apps.

"When backstage abstraction is locked, apps stay virtually invisible to others and are hidden from your apps list, caller apps view, notifications and settings.

"To entree backstage space, there’s an further furniture of authentication to support apps unafraid and distant from prying eyes."

And if you privation to marque it adjacent much private, you tin fell the Private Space itself.

That means radical won't adjacent spot that it's there.

HOW TO USE PRIVATE SPACE ON ANDROID

First marque definite that you've updated to Android 15.

You tin cheque your phone's mentation by going to Settings > About Phone > Android Version.

And if you privation to update, spell to Settings > System > Software Update.

Note that the names of these settings whitethorn alteration somewhat depending connected your telephone model.

Once you've got Android 15, you tin past spell into Settings > Security & Privacy.

Next you'll privation to look for Private Space, and travel the Set Up instructions.

This volition make a caller country astatine the bottommost of your app drawer wherever you tin find your hidden apps.

However, you tin besides fell the Private Space wholly by going into settings.

Google explains: "For further privacy, you tin take to fell the beingness of backstage abstraction from presumption connected your phone."

IPHONE USERS HAVE THIS TOO!

Don't interest if you're speechmaking this and you're panicking due to the fact that you person an iPhone.

Apple precocious built a precise akin diagnostic into the iPhone arsenic portion of the caller iOS 18 update.

Just going into Settings > General > Software Update to cheque if you person it.

Then simply spell to the Home Screen, interaction and clasp connected an app icon, past take Require Face ID.

After that, prime the enactment to Hide and Require Face ID.

You tin past find the hidden app successful the Hidden folder astatine the bottommost of the App Library – that's connected the far-right Home Screen panel.

It's intolerable to spot what's wrong the locked Hidden folder from the outside.

In fact, you can't adjacent archer if there's thing successful determination astatine all.