If you have just bought a Samsung Galaxy S21 that belonged to someone close to you, or you have suspicions that someone around you is trying to hide things from you, know that there is a feature on Android that allows to simply hide files or folders on a mobile phone. Today we are going to show you how to find hidden files or folders on Samsung Galaxy S21?
In this context, first we will see why it may be relevant to hide or hide files or folders on a Samsung Galaxy S21, then, by means of file management applications, first the native application, then Es File Explorer, which we believe is the best app for show hidden files on a Samsung Galaxy S21 .
For what reasons to hide files or folders on your Samsung Galaxy S21?
First of the parts of this guide, 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 Samsung Galaxy S21. This is an increasingly common practice which is mainly due to the fact that we store more and more data on our phones and in particular sensitive data. Whether it's identity documents, bank documents or personal photos, there are various reasons for wanting to hide files on your Samsung Galaxy S21.
How to show hidden files or folders on Samsung Galaxy S21 through an app?
It's time to find out how you are going to be able to get your hands on those documents that are hidden from view, you are going to notice that hidden files are not that much hidden and are only hidden from view by simple options. If you really want to get your hands on hidden data, you may need disable the encryption of your Samsung Galaxy S21.
Find hidden files or folders on Samsung Galaxy S21 via native file manager
So we start the practical part of our tutorial by showing you the procedure for learning all the hidden files or folders on your Samsung Galaxy S21 via the file manager of your mobile phone. This is the easiest solution you can use, despite everything, you may not be able to view all the hidden files or folders on your Samsung Galaxy S21 by going through this procedure.
We recommend that you therefore, if you have any doubts that you have missed certain files, go through the second option of this guide to complete the process. We will see that follow how to perform it:
- Open the native file manager of your Samsung Galaxy S21
- Go to the "Settings" of your application
- Access the "Advanced" menu of the latter
- Activate the option "Show hidden files"
- You can now by browsing in your file manager see all the files that are originally hidden, this also includes the hidden system files of your Samsung Galaxy S21
Show hidden files or folders on Samsung Galaxy S21 using Es File Explorer
Second solution, although the native file managers of phones are capable of many things, they are generally less complete than applications dedicated to this functionality, this is among others the case of Es File Explorer, one of the managers according to us more powerful and which will give you the possibility of simply having access to hidden files on your Samsung Galaxy S21. Follow these few instructions to use it:
- Download and install Es File Explorer on your Samsung Galaxy S21
- Open the application
- Drag the menu bar down
- Go to the "Settings" of the application
- Check the option "Show Hidden Files" to show all the hidden files on your Samsung Galaxy S21
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