If your privacy and internet security are essential for you, you certainly need it to be on your Google Pixel 3a XL as well. Indeed, we increasingly use our phones instead of our computers and essential data is stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...
Making sure that your smartphone is a real safe can suddenly be a coherent and useful choice. For this, you will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data from your Google Pixel 3a XL? To do this, we will help you by first showing you the interest of these security measures, after that, all the actions that you can activate to secure the files of your Google Pixel 3a XL and how to access them when 'they are locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on a Google Pixel 3a XL?
We start this guide by quickly teaching you what interest you will have in encrypting your Google Pixel 3a XL files. We will already come back to the notion and explain for those of you who are not comfortable with this computer notion of "Encryption". Encrypting files is in fact the same protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make files unreadable without the decryption code. You can also much more easily use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to your files.
Either way, and the system you choose to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some of which are heavier to set up, more complex to decrypt and therefore take longer for you to reach your files. However, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your Google Pixel 3a XL or has access to it to get their hands on your data.
To put it simply, each Google Pixel 3a XL encryption system corresponds to different requirements, if you don't have very personal things on your smartphone it's not worth going into encryption of all your data as if you work for the NSA. It is suddenly up to you to define subjectively, according to your requirements and your desires, the appropriate level.
How to encrypt data on Google Pixel 3a XL?
We start by showing you the different solutions available to you to encrypt your Google Pixel 3a XL files . We will reveal them to you in the order of the most basic to the most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Google Pixel 3a XL.
Encrypt your Google Pixel 3a XL using facial recognition
First of the options that exist, you can, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Google Pixel 3a XL. This is the solution that we least suggest to you, of course it has advantages, such as being very quick to have access to your files, only work with you .. However, there is a serious problem, the majority of facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
However, if you are not afraid that someone will access your files and you want to use it just to put a simple security on your Google Pixel 3a XL, you can configure it very easily in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.
Encrypt your Google Pixel 3a XL using a password, a visual diagram or a fingerprint
We have chosen to collect these different encryption alternatives for Google Pixel 3a XL in the same section because they all provide a similar and very satisfactory level of security. These three alternatives are different, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like the one on your SIM card that your phone will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram that you will determine and which is particularly difficult to hack. », And finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...
These three solutions will have the same functionality, preventing third party access to your Google Pixel 3a XL. However, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your smartphone to a loved one and give them the possibility of using it even if you are not with them, something impossible with the fingerprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your smartphone.
Encrypt all data on your Google Pixel 3a XL using encryption
Last option, and, you will have assimilated it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your Google Pixel 3a XL with a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all the data on your smartphone which can be encrypted, this technique requires time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Google Pixel 3a XL, this may require several hours. We therefore suggest this alternative for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we advise you to use the application SSE , who will have the opportunity to accompany you and take care of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the application on your Google Pixel 3a XL
- Open SSE
- Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Set a password and confirm the process
- You will now be able to access it only thanks to the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt data on Google Pixel 3a XL?
Concerning decryption of data from a Google Pixel 3a XL , you will have understood it, each encryption method has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create an unlocking or file access solution and the latter that you must write down somewhere and not forget otherwise you risk losing access to your files forever. .
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