Can I hide/lock photos from deletion?

[Kaitlyn2004]

I use Google Photos as my backup instead of iCloud and I want to keep it that way. However I recently ran into a problem whe clearing out old photos off the device that were backed up into Google Photos already.

Some of those photos were used for the wallpaper, for example. But when I’m just mass-selecting hundreds of photos no way I can keep track of something like that. As such after GBs of photos/videos, my lock screen and wallpaper went black.

Is there a way I can ensure some photos won’t get accidentally deleted from the device?

 

[Paddle1]

You could save some photos to the Files app if you want to keep them separate from the Photos app's library.

I don't know why your wallpaper went black though, I'm pretty sure you don't need a photo to be in your library for it to be your wallpaper.