How to Lock Photos App with Password on MAC

In this guide, I will be sharing with you how to lock photos on Mac,MacBook, as well as MacBook Air with super ease. As a Mac user, I always transfer my iPhone photos to Mac for backup. As a result, a large numbers of photos end up on my Mac. Among them, there are personal and family photos that I’d like to keep private. It makes perfect sense that we don’t want others to view our photos without permission.

What’s more, if others have access to our Photos app, it’s not unlikely that they may accidentally delete one or more of our precious photos.

The best solution is to password protect Photos app on Mac. Is there any way to lock Mac apps like Photos without locking Mac screen or the entire photos folder? Definitely yes. The methods below will show to how to put a password on photos on Mac with ease.

 

 

Why Need to Lock Photo App on Mac

Case 1:Approximately 90,000 photos and 9,000 videos were leaked in the form of a massive 13.6 GB file that was then posted on viralpop.com, a site created exclusively to host the cache of personal photos. -From Attn.

Case 2: On August 31, 2014, a collection of almost 500 private pictures of various celebrities, mostly women, and with many containing nudity, were posted on the image board 4chan, and later disseminated by other users on websites and social networks such as Imgur and Reddit. -From Wikipedia.

After all these photo leakage events frequently. Many users may not post their photos on websites or platforms to store photos. They choose to store their photos on Mac.

Is it really safe to store photos on Mac? That may not be. Everyone around you can see your photos when using your Mac. So it is imperative to lock your Photos app to keep your Mac photos from prying eyes. When you lock the Photos app, no one can view your photos. You can follow the two methods below on how to lock photos on Mac.

How to Lock Photos on Mac on Mac with AppCrypt

AppCrypt ,which is customized for Mac, is recognized as the one of the best and most popular app lockers for Mac by users. It can 

• Lock applications like Photos, Contacts, Google, Quicken, iPhoto, iTunes, Safari, Mail, YouTube, etc. 
• Lock individual, multiple or all apps on your Mac with one password. 
• Prevent unauthorized users from accessing your Mac apps and provides a report of suspicious attempts to open locked apps. 
• Lock app and block games on specific days and times.

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Step 1. Install and launch AppCrypt on Mac.

The AppCrypt will ask for you to set a password which will be used to lock Mac.Just set a password which is easy to remember.Select I have read and I understand this warning and click Submit button. 

Step 2. AppCrypt will lock four system applications by default. Click OKbutton

Step 3.Click Add Appon the top menu bar to add the Photos app. And the Photos app will be listed on the left column. Once you have added the Photos app in, all pictures in it will be protected with the AppCrypt password. If you don’t want to lock the Photos app anymore, just click Remove Appto remove it.

*If any suspicious guys try to peek at your personal photos, the system will keep record of all failed operations with date, time and captured photos.

How to Lock Photos on Mac with Parental Controls

Here is another way on how to lock photos on Mac. 

Parental Control, is the system-provided app. With it, you can prevent specified user accounts from accessing inappropriate content on Internet or apps. It is able to manage, monitor, control the time the users spend on the Mac, the websites they visit, the apps they access and the people they chat with. So once you set it up, you can also set access restrictions on Photos app.

Step 1. Click Apple menu > System Preferences > Parental Controls. Click the lock icon to unlock it, then enter with your administrator name and password.

Step 2. Select a user, then click Enable Parental Controls. If there is no user in the list, click Add + button , then fill in the name, account, and password information to create a new user.

Step 3. After you select a user, click Appsof the tabs along the top. Check Limit ApplicationsAnd choose the app you want the user to access. Please unselect Photos app when you don’t want to others to see your privacy photos.

Step 4. At last, don’t forget to click button to prevent further changes. This can help improve Mac security and privacy.

Conclusion

Above are the two easy methods on how to lock photos on Mac.For Mac Parental Controls, when you lend your Mac to others, you have to change your user account. If you are working or learning with the administrator account and leave the Mac for a while, there are some possibility that someone can open Photos and view your privacy pictures on your Mac. But don’t worry. Cisdem AppCrypt can lock your Photos app no matter which user account you are using.Do you find this how-to guide useful? Welcome to leave a comment and share your thoughts and opinions.Download the free trial of AppCrypt for Mac now!