Hide Images, Videos, Music on SD card from Android Gallery (Hide WhatsApp media from gallery)

In android devices all images, videos and sound tracks which are located on internal memory and SD card are automatically added to the music player and the gallery. There are many cases where you don't want to avoid adding these media files to gallery. For example you may want to hide media downloaded from Whatsapp.

You can do this by a simple trick. Android OS skip folders which have a ".nomedia" file inside it. (File with no file name and extension .nomedia)

What you have to do

Create a file with an empty file name and extension ".nomedia" .
Copy this to the folder which you want to avoid scanning by the gallery.

Some file managers do not allow to create files. If your file manager doesn't support to create new files try using ES File Explorer or File Manager (File transfer).

Or you can create a file using computer and then copy it to the phone.

Or you can download and extract it from here.

How to hide Whatsapp media from gallery.

Suppose you want to hide images you download in Whatsapp.

Go to Root folder of your phone's internal memory. (May be SD card depending on your device)
Go to WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Images
Copy .nomedia file here.

That's all :)

Note: Media which were cached to gallery earlier may not be removed from the gallery. But new content will not be scanned by the gallery.

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