Last year, I told you about Picture Safe, a great app that lets separate, group, organize and password protect any iOS device photos you want. It’s an app that I’ve used since then to keep photos that I want to keep privately archived on my iPhone.
Just a couple weeks back, though, when I launched the app, I got a notification to upgrade to Video Safe 2, an app by the same developer that does the same thing as Photo Safe, but allows you to keep video behind the password as well. Even better, it had a migration tool that let me move all my folders and photos from Photo Safe over to Video Safe, using my Mac and the USB Lightning cable that came with my iPhone 5.
I’m happy to report that it worked flawlessly, and now I have all my photos (and, recently, a few videos) safely backed up on my iPhone, but unavailable to anyone who’s perusing my camera roll photos.
All you need to do to get Video Safe 2 working is to grab it from the App store and let it load up on your iPhone. Launch it with a tap, and then enter a PIN that you’ll be able to remember. Try not to use the same one as you do on your unlock screen, and be sure to set a reminder email address for when you forget the PIN.
If you’re not migrating over from Picture Safe, you’ll see an empty list screen, and you tap on the plus sign in the upper right, and add pictures and videos from your iPhone’s Camera Roll. You can also just take photos or video from within the app itself, so if you know you’re gonna want to keep this private, you might consider doing just that. If you do add from your Camera Roll, be sure that you later head into your iPhone Photos app and delete the private photos from there, or all your security steps will be for naught. Oops.
Now that you’re photos and videos are safely ensconced behind a unique PIN, you can again hand off your iPhone to Aunt Rose when she wants to see pictures of your kids’ birthday party, or the latest dog pics from the beach. She really doesn’t want to see those other ones, got it?
Source: App Store
