Hidden gallery
Hide photos in a vault only you can open.
Secure Folder: Incogni Vault is a private photo vault for iPhone that moves your sensitive photos, videos, documents, and notes out of the Photos app and into a hidden, protected gallery locked behind your PIN or Face ID. Unlike iPhone's built-in Hidden album — which anyone with access to your Photos app can find in seconds — the vault is a separate space with its own lock, its own decoy, and no iCloud sync. Imports happen on your device, storage stays on your device, and nothing is ever uploaded to a server. Hand your phone to a friend to show one photo and stop worrying about the swipe that goes one photo too far.
- Locks with
- PIN · Face ID · Touch ID
- Stores
- Photos, videos, files, notes
- Cloud
- None — on-device only
- Price
- Free · Pro for unlimited imports
How the hidden gallery works
Pick photos and videos from your camera roll and import them into the vault. They're copied into the app's protected storage, organized into folders you control, and shown only after you unlock with your PIN or Face ID. Once you've confirmed the import worked, you can delete the originals from the Photos app — at that point the only copy lives inside the vault, invisible to anyone scrolling your camera roll, your iCloud photo grid, or the Hidden album.
The vault opens instantly with Face ID or Touch ID when you enable biometrics, with your PIN as the fallback. Closing the app locks it again — there is no logged-in state to stumble into.
Not just photos: files, documents, and notes
The same protected space handles PDFs, scans, personal records, and private notes. If it's the kind of paperwork you wouldn't leave on the kitchen table — IDs, contracts, medical letters — it can live behind the same PIN as your photos, organized in folders instead of scattered across the Files app.
Why this beats the built-in Hidden album
iPhone's Hidden album hides photos from the main grid, but it's a well-known feature in a predictable place, and on shared or unlocked phones it's one tap away. A vault app is a different trust model: a separate lock that isn't your phone's passcode, a decoy vault for pressure situations, and an intruder log for wrong guesses. We wrote up the honest comparison — including when the built-in feature is actually enough — in the guide below.
Common questions
Are my photos uploaded anywhere when I hide them?
No. Secure Folder stores imported photos, videos, and files only on your iPhone, inside the app's protected storage. There is no account, no cloud sync, and no server — the app's developer cannot see or recover your content.
Do hidden photos still appear in the Photos app or iCloud?
Importing copies a photo into the vault. The original stays in your Photos app (and iCloud, if you sync) until you delete it — the app walks you through removing originals after import so the vault copy is the only one left.
How many photos can I hide for free?
The free version includes a limited number of imports so you can properly try the vault. Incogni Pro — a subscription or one-time lifetime purchase — unlocks unlimited imports, intruder alerts, and widgets.
Try it on your own photos.
Free to download — set your PIN in under a minute.