How to hide WhatsApp multimedia files automatically from Gallery and other media players in Android?

We all use a lot of social media apps nowadays on our android smartphones. Where we can share our precious moments with our friends. But these apps download pics and videos to your phone and can cause problems when someone uses your phone. Who want his wife to see his girlfriend's pics, jokes apart. All download stuff can be seen easily in Gallery and other Multimedia apps.

There are a lot of solutions of this problem. You can use third party apps to hide content, but such free apps are full of ads and they don't hide new content in hidden folder instantly. Well, we are not here to discuss about such apps. There is a very simple solution exist and you don't need to install any app for it. 

Step by Step Process:

Check if your file manager is able to create new files. If not, download any external file manager. I recommend ES File Explorer.

Open the folder that you want to hide. For example - WhatsApp

Step 3

Now create file and name it <.nomedia> without tags.

Open Gallery to see the changes. Delete <.nomedia> file to unhide content again.

Most of the android apps neglect the folder containg file <.nomedia>. It is a hidden file so you cannot see it without enabling <show hidden files> option in your file manager.

All you have to do is create a blank file and remame it to <.nomedia> in the folder that you want to hide. You can still see the content when you open that folder in file manager. Gallery and other music, photos and video players will not show the content.