An album often goes to more than one group, and occasionally one photo in it isn't for all of them. Hiding handles that without splitting the album in two.
You can reach it from your library, from a photo itself, and from the page Keepr offers when an upload finishes — see Organising an upload, which also covers uploading photos hidden in the first place.
What hiding does#
It takes one photo out of view for the circles you choose. The photo stays in the album, you still see it, and everyone you haven't hidden it from carries on seeing it as before.
You can review who currently sees any photo, turn individual circles off, and change your mind later. Nothing about it is permanent.
Hidden photos stay out of posts and links#
A hidden photo also stays out of timeline posts: a post shows each person only the photos they may see, so a photo hidden from a circle disappears from posts in that circle as well.
And out of share links. An album link never includes a hidden photo, so an album you've hidden a couple of photos in can be shared without re-checking what's in it. A photo hidden from everyone is never on any link. A photo hidden from a circle can be put on a link only by the person who added it: the share window says "Hidden from Family. Anyone with this link can still see it." before the link is made.
When you post photos and tap a circle off, the post window offers to hide the photos from that circle too, because leaving a circle out of a post doesn't take the photos out of the album it can see.
Hiding works by circle, not by person#
You can hide a photo from "colleagues". You can't hide it from one particular colleague.
That's a deliberate limit rather than a missing feature: per-person exclusions would mean every photo carrying a list of individuals, which is both harder to reason about and easier to get wrong. Groups are something you can hold in your head.
If you need one specific person not to see something, the reliable answer is not to put it somewhere they can reach — see Who can see your photos.
Check what a circle can see#
You see your own hidden photos everywhere, marked with a small badge, so your usual view can't tell you whether hiding worked. To check, open the filters on a circle, an album or your library and choose a circle under Seen by. The grid then shows only what that circle's members can see, with a line at the top saying so. Show everything takes you back. On an album, Who can see this album also has See what they see on each of your circles.
You can only check circles you belong to.
The exception: shared Family Hub albums#
Inside a shared hub album, hiding doesn't keep a photo from the other hub members.
A hub is a household with one shared archive — everyone in it reaching the same photos is the entire point of sharing storage. Hiding narrows who outside the hub sees a photo, not who inside does.
If you want something other hub members can't see, put it in an album that's private to you. Any hub member can create one, it uses the hub's shared storage, and nobody else in the hub can see it. See Privacy inside a Family Hub.
This is the single easiest thing to get wrong about Keepr's privacy model, so it's worth being blunt: hiding a photo in a shared hub album does not hide it from your household.