How to hide a file or folder on your Android device?
Don’t want some curious user looking into all the folders on your smartphone? So make this folder invisible so that only you can view its contents!
Method #1
1) Launch File Manager
2) Navigate to the folder you want to hide
3) Create in it empty text file and name it .nomedia
4) Reboot device
Method #2
1) Launch File Manager
2) Select the folder you want to hide, highlight it
3) In the options, click “rename”
4) Rename the file so that it is preceded by a dot “.dowloads ”
5) Open the file manager settings and uncheck the box “Show hidden files”
As again make the folder visible?
1) Launch the file manager
2) If you created a file .nomedia, then delete it
3) Reboot the device
1) Start File Manager
2) If If you renamed the file, then remove the dot before the name
3) Return the checkbox “Show hidden files” to the on position