Many people nowadays need to hide photos, videos and files on their Android device and end up downloading specialized apps to do so, but there is a method using a file manager that is super functional and simple to do.

How do I hide photos, videos and files? 

To do this you can use the file manager Es File ExplorerYou may be thinking: "I'm going to use an app anyway", but this app provides many more functions, such as managing files, cleaning your phone and many others that you can discover by installing the app.

To hide something is very simple, first you enter the App, then click on the top left corner and select the option show hidden files, then just click on the top right corner and go to new, then folder, when you put the name of the folder it is essential that you put a . in front of the folder name, e.g. ".folder", this will prevent it from being read by the phone, only by the app, then just put whatever you want inside that folder and that's it, it won't show up in the gallery, and if you want you can also turn off the show hidden files function, so they'll be completely hidden.