macOS Monterey 12
Photos User Guide
- Welcome
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- Browse your photos
- View individual photos
- Add titles, captions, and more
- Interact with text in a photo using Live Text
- Use Visual Look Up to learn about a photo
- View photos others have shared with you
- Delete photos or recover deleted ones
- Hide photos from view
- View photo bursts
- Play video clips
- View photos by who’s in them
- View photos by location
- Change Photos preferences
- Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
- Copyright

Hide photos from view in Photos on Mac
In Photos on your Mac, you can hide photos that you don’t want to display. The hidden photos remain in your library, and you can reveal them later when you want.
Hide photos temporarily from view
In the Photos app
on your Mac, click Library in the sidebar.Select the photo or photos you want to hide, choose Image > Hide [number] Photos, then click Hide.
The selected photos disappear from view but are not deleted.
Show photos that you’ve hidden
In the Photos app
on your Mac, click Library in the sidebar.Choose View > Show Hidden Photo Album.
The Hidden album appears in the sidebar.
Select the photos you want to display, then choose Image > Unhide [number] Photos.
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