How to Hide Image / Picture Files from Gallery Scanning on Your Android Device

Gallery is a must have application on every Android device / other mobile device. It should be a place where your beautifull and memorable picture of your's is gathered with clean and neat. And of course we don't want annoying and "unwanted" pictures to be appear on the Gallery app of our android / mobile device, but sometimes, it will :D .

Example when we installing an application / game, the app then create and distribute it's resources in our Android phone. We don't know where the app / game will distribute it, and if it distribute it image file resources on your internal memory device, then it just will spamming your Gallery with and will make your Gallery app totally mess.

Other reason your Gallery app on your Android device is become a mess with unwanted images is when you put or downloaded images pictures. The image file you download or put somewhere on your device storage will appear on your Gallery. Example if you hobbies to collecting memes by downloading it on social media, the memes will appear on the Gallery and gathered alongside with your picture with your family :D .

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Now if you want to hide some images so it not messying your Gallery app, maybe you can try this tutorial ...

Steps how to hide unwanted images which appears on your gallery device app


  1. Open your best file manager app.
  2. Then locate the folder location where the unwanted images you want to hide from gallery scanning. You must know where is the image is saved / gathered, and you can see the images folder name from the "album" name in the gallery as a hint.
  3. Then at that folder / directory, make a file named ".nomedia". Note that some file manager app like stock file manager in samsung phone maybe can not make a file with "." symbol as prefix.

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  4. Done. Restart or reboot your Android / device.

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Just a simple man with simple hobbies like playing games, listening music, and read about new things. Enjoying blogging as hobby since 2014 and later caught interest playing with his first Android smartphone since 2015, he then combined the two hobbies on this blog and it is a great time killer for him.

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