If you've ever just bought an Honor 20i that was loved by someone close to you, or you have suspicion that someone you know is trying to hide things from you, you should know that there is a feature on Android that offers the ability to hide files or folders on a phone very easily. In this guide, we are going to teach you how to find hidden files or folders on Honor 20i?
To begin with, we will see why it can be useful to hide or hide files or folders on an Honor 20i, then, using file management applications, first of all the native application, then Es File Explorer, which in our opinion is the best application for show hidden files on an Honor 20i .
For what reasons to hide files or folders on your Honor 20i?
First of the sections of this article, in this one, we will try to understand with you why it may be relevant for some people to want to prevent access to certain documents on their Honor 20i. It is an increasingly common technique which is mainly due to the fact that we store more and more files on our mobile phones and in particular sensitive files. Whether it's identity documents, bank documents or personal photos, there can be many reasons for wanting to hide files on your Honor 20i.
How to show hidden files or folders on Honor 20i using an app?
It's time to learn how you are going to be able to recover these documents which are hidden from view of all, you will realize that hidden files are not that much hidden and are simply hidden from view of all with simple options. If you ever want to really recover hidden files you may need disable the encryption of your Honor 20i.
Find hidden files or folders on an Honor 20i using the native file manager
We start suddenly the practical part of our article by showing you the solution to learn all the hidden files or folders on your Honor 20i using the file manager of your phone. This is the easiest option you can use, having said that, you may not be able to view all of the hidden files or folders on your Honor 20i thanks to this procedure.
We therefore advise you, in the event that you have doubts about having missed certain files, to go through the second option of this article to complete the procedure. Find out the following how to do it:
- Open the native file manager of your Honor 20i
- Go to the "Settings" of your application
- Go to the "Advanced" menu of this one
- Activate the option "Show hidden files"
- You will now be able, by browsing in your file manager, to see all the files that are originally hidden, this also includes the hidden system files of your Honor 20i
Show hidden files or folders on Honor 20i using Es File Explorer
Second solution, although the native file managers of mobile phones are capable of a lot of things, they are in most cases less complete than applications dedicated to this functionality, this is notably the case of Es File Explorer, one of the Manager according to us the most complete and which will give you the possibility of very easily to have access to hidden files on your Honor 20i. Follow these few guidelines to use it:
- Download and install Es File Explorer on your Honor 20i
- Open the application
- Drag the menu bar down
- Go to the "Settings" of the application
- Check the “Show Hidden Files” option to display all of the hidden files on your Honor 20i
If you want a lot of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Honor 20i, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Honor 20i.
