How to hide your balance in Phantom, Trust Wallet, Coinbase, Exodus and MetaMask, and what stays visible

One long press masks the total in most wallet apps. The documented gesture for five of them comes first, followed by what the toggle leaves in view: other screens, notifications, the address, and everything on the blockchain itself.

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Hardware wallet app screen composed in Flexdger Wallet: a portfolio named Northwind, a total balance and its change for the day above a row of Transfer, Swap and Buy buttons, the list of holdings with each amount and its move for the day, in a dark theme with a lavender accent.
Composed in Flexdger Wallet. Every figure on it was typed in; nothing is held, sent or received, and no chain is read.

A hide toggle edits pixels, not the ledger

Hide balance is a display setting. It replaces digits on your own screen with dots or asterisks, and it stops there. That is enough for the uses wallet makers had in mind: Coinbase describes it as a way to conceal portfolio balances in the app, Trust Wallet calls it perfect for public places or taking screenshots, and Phantom launched it in 2022 as a way to use your wallet discreetly. It is not designed for the case people increasingly want it for, which is posting a recording or screenshot to an audience you cannot see.

So there are three situations. In a room with friends, the toggle works. In a recording you keep, it works only as well as the rest of the frame. In a public post, it is a small part of the answer. The sections below give the steps first and the gaps second.

Turning it on, app by app

Each gesture below is the one the app documents itself, in its help center or on its official account. Menus change, so if a gesture does nothing, look in the app's settings for "hide balance" or "privacy mode". We are not affiliated with Phantom, Trust Wallet, Coinbase, Exodus or MetaMask.

Phantom (mobile)

Open Phantom on your phone and long-press your wallet balance on the home screen. The figure is masked. Long-press again to see it. Phantom announced privacy mode on September 14, 2022, as a long press on your wallet balance in the mobile app that switches it on and off. Its help center, which we searched, has no dedicated article on the feature, so the announcement is the reference and we describe only the mobile steps it gives. The wording is telling: a wallet maker marketed it as a way to use your wallet discreetly, because the demand for showing a wallet without showing the number is real.

Left visible: the address, the Receive screen and the activity history are not described as hidden. Phantom's own help center says anyone who knows your address can view its onchain balances, token holdings and transaction history.

Trust Wallet

Open the app and long-press the portfolio total; press again to bring the figures back. Trust Wallet's official account described this in July 2025 as the way to toggle privacy mode.

Left visible: the post says the long press toggles the balance and says nothing more. The token list, the Receive screen and your activity are not described as hidden, and the balance stays readable on a block explorer.

Coinbase

In the Coinbase app, long-press your portfolio balance on the Home screen, or open Settings, then Appearance, and switch on Hide balance. Balances turn into asterisks or dots. Coinbase's help center names the feature Hide balance (formerly Privacy mode).

Left visible: Coinbase notes that it works only in the app and not on Coinbase.com, so a browser tab that stays open shows everything.

Exodus (mobile)

Open Exodus Mobile, then tap and hold the circle graph until the value is replaced by dots. Repeat the gesture to reveal it. Exodus documents this in its guide to customizing Exodus Mobile, updated September 22, 2026.

Left visible: Exodus is exact about scope. The masking covers the portfolio value on the portfolio screen, in the circle graph and in the overview. The same guide explains how to turn on notifications for wallet activity, which tell you when you receive crypto, a point that matters in a later section.

MetaMask (mobile)

MetaMask's help center has no article on hiding the balance, only on hiding individual tokens and on privacy settings. Its public issue tracker shows the mobile feature exists, as a hide control on the home screen balance. It also shows the limits: a bug report opened on November 4, 2025 noted that hiding balances on the homepage did not carry over to the account list, where balances stayed visible, and it was closed as completed on March 10, 2026. A toggle covers the screens its developers thought of, in any app.

What is not covered

Every help page above describes one thing, masked balance figures. None claims the toggle hides anything else. That leaves a long list.

That last point cannot be changed by any toggle. Phantom's help center states it directly: activity on blockchain networks is public, and anyone who knows your wallet address can see its onchain balances, token holdings and transaction history, including some tokens the app itself may hide or filter. Show your address once, in a Receive screen or a QR code, and the hidden total is one search away.

Before you screenshot or record

  1. Switch hide balance on, then open every screen you plan to show and confirm each one is masked.
  2. Quiet the notifications. On iPhone, set the wallet app's previews to Never under Settings, Notifications, or use a Focus, which delays notifications.
  3. Skip the Receive screen and keep out of the activity tab.
  4. Never show a recovery phrase or a private key, hidden balance or not.
  5. Play the clip back frame by frame before it goes anywhere.
  6. For photos, share without location: in the share sheet, tap Options and turn Location off.

Once something has slipped through, taking it out is harder than it sounds. How to cover a balance in a video explains why blur leaks, and sharing a wallet address or screenshot covers why redaction is weaker than it seems.

Friends see dots, the internet keeps the clip

In a room the toggle does its job: the person next to you sees dots, and the moment passes. Online nothing passes. A post is saved, re-shared and paused, and the audience is anyone. Chainalysis, writing in August 2026 about violent attacks on crypto holders, warns that publicly disclosing holdings, whether through social media, conference appearances or on-chain activity linked to known identities, can make individuals targets. A hidden total beside a visible token list and a findable address is still a disclosure. The streaming side of this is in showing a crypto wallet on stream, and the posting side in should you post the screenshot at all?

Stealth wealth, and why holders keep totals off screen

Wiktionary defines stealth wealth as wealth that its owner keeps private or low-key instead of displaying it.

For crypto holders the habit is also about safety. Chainalysis uses the term wrench attacks for physical violence or coercion against crypto holders. In its mid-2025 update it said 2025 was on track to have potentially twice as many physical attacks as the next highest year on record, and it advised caution about public displays of wealth and avoiding social media posts that reveal crypto holdings or trading activities. Cointelegraph, citing Chainalysis, reported on August 6, 2026 that more than 30 million USD was taken in physical attacks in the first half of 2026, across 46 documented incidents, after a record 58 million USD in 2025. A hidden total is the smallest version of that habit. What creators stop showing in their videos is covered in wrench attacks and crypto creators.

If the money is not the point, use a wallet that is not yours

Many posts are not about your money at all. They are skits, tutorials, reactions and explainers about how wallets look. For those, a real wallet brings every risk above and nothing the video needs. A different kind of app handles that.

A larp wallet, or crypto wallet app simulator, draws a wallet screen that reads as real from figures you type yourself, for a video, a sketch, a pitch deck or a demo. Nothing is held in it and no chain is read. There is no address to look up, no history, no alert from a real transfer. We make one, Flexdger Wallet; how the category works and where it stops is in what a crypto wallet simulator is.

Where the line is

A simulated wallet is a prop. It can show what a wallet looks like, and it can never stand for what you own. Showing one to friends as your real balance, or posting it as proof of holdings or gains, is deception, and our terms of use forbid it. Keep a visible "Simulated" or "Mockup" label on it, and use your real wallet with its balance hidden only where nothing is recorded.

If you want a stand-in screen rather than hiding your real one, larp Trust Wallet explains what we offer, and what we do not.

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Questions

How do I make the balance reappear in Phantom?

Long-press the balance again. Phantom announced the feature as a long press on your wallet balance in the mobile app that switches it on and off, so the same gesture brings the number back.

Which gesture hides the balance in each app?

A long press on the total in the Coinbase app, Phantom and Trust Wallet, with Coinbase also offering a switch under Settings, Appearance. In Exodus mobile, press and hold the circle graph until the value turns into dots. MetaMask mobile has a hide control on the home screen balance.

Does the toggle hide my wallet address?

No. The help pages describe masking balance figures, and none says the Receive screen, the QR code or the activity list is hidden. The address matters most, since it opens everything else.

Can someone still read my balance if I hide it in the app?

Yes, if they have your address. The toggle changes only what your own screen shows. Phantom's help center says activity on blockchain networks is public, and anyone who knows your wallet address can view its onchain balances, token holdings and transaction history.

My Trust Wallet balance is missing. Is it hidden?

Check that hide balance is off first, by long-pressing the portfolio total once more. If the numbers still look wrong, compare them with a block explorer and follow Trust Wallet's own steps for balance and transaction issues.

How do I hide the balance before a screenshot on iPhone?

Turn on the app's hide balance first, because a screenshot records exactly what is on screen. Then check the rest of the frame: no Receive screen, no history, no banner. On iPhone you can set notification previews to Never for the wallet app under Settings, Notifications.

Is a video with the balance hidden safe?

Safer, not safe. A hidden total leaves the token list, address screens and incoming alerts one tap away, and video can be paused frame by frame. For anything public, the safest wallet to show is one that is not yours.

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