I'm sure people taking pictures of medical documents/ids would like such a feature. A lot of people do send sexy pictures to each other. A few celebrities got their icloud accounts hijacked several years ago and had compromising photos leaked. I think better security around that stuff is a great thing.
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Google Photos 'Locked Folder' Feature for Pixel Phones Coming to iOS
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Making it so anybody who has your passcode can access all of your passwords and photos without any additional authentication? Hahahahaha
Is this only for photos? Samsung's Secure Folder is nice because it is local and isn't tied to photos. It's basically another phone since you can also use apps.
Why the hidden photos folder on iOS is not lockable (or locked by default) makes zero sense to me.
PERFECT For my Barefoot models collection ? I don’t want people knowing that I like Feėt
My not-so-elegant workaround on iOS is to put my sensitive photos in a note in the notes app (you can have notes either across iCloud, or just physically on that specific iPhone). So a note only available on that iPhone, place in those pics, and add a FaceID (or TouchID) lock. 
The fact that you think it’s a “one or the other” choice just shows how little you understand about encryption and security.
Despite those safeguards, last year Google was forced to contact some 100,000 users to inform them that some of their private videos backed up on its servers had been accidentally sent to strangers due to a "technical issue."
Yeah. Samsung is often a few years ahead of stock Android. The Secure Folder puts anything you want behind another lock.
With Samsung's Secure Folder, I can confidently hand my phone over to my gf or even leave it unlocked. She doesn't know I have whats app, bumble and tinder in my secure folder. Hahahah jkjk
Google Photos works much like Apple’s Photos app on iOS and Mac in that you don’t have to sync your photos to the cloud, you can use Google Photos to manage locally stored content only that will never go to Google’s servers.
lmao what??? google adds a new feature in 2021 and they suggested apple does the same. and your counterargument is a security issue google had last year?
I don’t think this is accurate. This wasn’t a leak related to locked folders. In the context of that article, “private photos” refers to photos not made public.
Yup. My point was a feature for android is not necessarily a feature for iOS, even though some may want it.
Also, that number is not supported by MR's own reporting. All anyone knows is that less than .01% of people using Google Takeout over a few day period got a video that was not theirs. We don't know how many that is, or even if many people had their video(s) distributed. Just that a tiny fraction of users of a specific tool over a specific period got something they should not have.
Apple offering a solution like this would be like admitting their current phone is not secure, which is why you won't see anything like this from Apple. Meanwhile, Android has had the secure folder for years, which allows a second encrypted enclave that can contain it's own gallery and apps. This is different from Knox.
