How to Hide Zip Files in Images On your Mac

The important files are mostly stored as a format of Zip files. Additionally, someday we want to hide our some personal yet confidential Zip files on our computer. Therefore, today we are going to disclose an unique way to hide your important zip files.

Today you are going to learn that, “How to Hide Zip files in Image on your Mac?” Yes, you heard it right! you can actually, hide your important zip files in an image which would definitely puzzled the mind of grabber and your file would be at safe place for sure. You need to follow our this unique guide to hide zip files in images on your Mac.

Learn-How to Hide Zip Files in Images On Mac

So, here are the steps which you are going to follow to get that, “how to hide zip files in images?” This guide is specially designed and written for Mac users, the guide for Windows users would be released in coming days. Now, you are requested to get towards the steps:

• First of all, name your image as Picture and your zip file as Private (You may give these names according to your wish, but do change the names in below mentioned command as well)
• After giving names, paste both image and Zip file on your Mac’s desktop
• Now, you need to open Terminal and type following command then hit enter

cd Desktop

• After that, type another command which is mentioned below and then hit enter again. The following image name is with JPG format. If your image is with PNG or GIF format then replace .jpg with your image’s extension in the below command

cat Picture.jpg Private.zip > picture2.jpg

• Ones you have entered the command then another file on your desktop will be created with namePicture2.jpg which will showing the thumbnail of your image but actually, carries your zip file. It will look like a normal image file which will open as a image and you will receive not even a single difference between image file and your zip file hidden in your image irrespective to size of the files
• If you want to access or unzip your file which is hidden in image file then Open the Terminal and type below command then hit enter

unzip picture2.jpg

• Now, you will have the unzipped folder of your hidden file
• This was it!