How to Hide Sensitive Info Before Sharing a Photo on Android
Your phone comes with the convenience of being able to share images with friends and family on a whim. However, you might accidentally expose some sensitive or private information that may compromise your privacy and security, especially on social media.
Some information you should be wary of leaving on images you share on your phone include credit card numbers, personal contacts, passwords, addresses, passport details, and social security numbers. Here are several ways it’s possible to ensure the information on photos you share from your phone doesn’t land in the wrong hands.
1. Overlay Elements Using Your Default Photo Editor
The easiest way of covering info on a photo is using your phone’s native editor to overlay elements on it. it’s possible to overlay emojis, stickers, icons, or other images depending on what your photo editing app offers.
Here’s an example of how to go about it on a Samsung phone, but the procedure should be similar on other Android devices. We’ll be hiding a personal physical address that accidentally shows up on a photo using stickers.
2. Hide Personal Info in Photos With Canva and ScreenMaster
There are manyfree photo editing appsavailable on Android that you can use to modify and edit your photos. You can use these to edit or cover private information before sharing a picture.CanvaandScreenMasterare two of the available free editors we recommend if you need to quickly edit out the information you want to hide when sharing your photos.
To block out any details on a photo on the Canva Android app, follow these steps:
ScreenMaster is primarily built to censor images' details, especially in screenshots. Here’s how to go about it:
3. Crop Out Parts of an Image
If the information you want to hide is along the edges of your image, cropping it out is the best way of censoring it. The best thing about this approach is that you can use your phone’s native photo editor.
Here’s an example of how to do it. The procedure may vary slightly from device to device, but the idea is the same.
Image cropping comes as a primary functionality on allthird-party photo editing apps. Also, it’s possible to use one of the many availableonline image-cropping toolsif you want to do it on a PC.
4. Cover the Details You Want to Protect
If you’re wary of leaking any information before even taking a particular photo, you can easily fix it by covering it with another object. For instance, you can place a book or a piece of paper over your address whenscanning a document using your phone.
Secure Your Private Information
Sharing files over the internet is convenient, but this level of convenience comes with the possibility of your information landing in the wrong hands. To be safe, always check all your photos and screenshots for anything private or sensitive before sharing them with friends, family, or workmates.
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