Hiding videos

To hide videos on iPhone, touch and hold the video in Photos and tap Hide; it moves to the Hidden album with your photos. Long videos take up a lot of space and a lot of upload time, so these guides also cover what happens to hidden videos in iCloud and when you change phone. Each guide is checked against Apple’s own documentation, with the date we checked it. Hiding a video doesn’t make it smaller or keep it off iCloud: it still counts towards your storage, and anyone who can open the Hidden album can play it. That matters most for long videos you’d hate to lose, so the guides also explain how to check a hidden video survived a move to a new phone before you wipe the old one. Start with the pillar guide below, which covers every step.

In short

• Videos hide the same way as photos: on iPhone they move to the Hidden album.
• Hidden videos still sync with iCloud Photos and open with your passcode.