Locking content

Premium feature

Locking content is part of Panels Premium.

Locking lets you keep parts of your library private without affecting anything else. It works per item, so you're not choosing between locking your whole library and locking nothing.

Locking a comic or folder

Long press any single comic or folder and choose to lock it. That item is locked on its own — everything around it stays exactly as it was.

Once locked:

• The comic or folder appears blurred in your library.
• Opening it requires your password or Face ID.

Locked content is hidden from the Files app

This is the part worth knowing in advance: a locked file or folder is also hidden from the file system.

So if you lock something in Panels and then go looking for it in the Files app, you won't find it. Nothing has been deleted — it's still there, just not visible outside Panels. Unlock it in Panels and it reappears.

tip

Worth keeping in mind before moving to a new device or copying your library somewhere else: unlock anything you need to see in the Files app first.