If your privacy and your internet security are essential to you, you surely want it to be too on your Google Pixel 3a. Indeed, we are using more and more our smartphones instead of our computers and essential data passes through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...
Ensuring that your mobile phone is a real safe can suddenly be a coherent and useful choice. In this context, we will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data from your Google Pixel 3a? In this context, we will help you by first showing you the importance of these security measures, then all the actions that you can activate to secure the files of your Google Pixel 3a and how to access them when they are locked. .
What is the point of encrypting data on a Google Pixel 3a?
We therefore start this tutorial by briefly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Google Pixel 3a. We will already come back to the term reveal for those of you who are not comfortable with this computer concept of "Encryption". Encrypting files actually comes down to them. 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.
Anyway and the system you decide to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to set up, more difficult 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 or has access to it to get hold of your data.
To put it simply, each Google Pixel 3a encryption device is suitable for different needs, assuming that you don't have very important things on your smartphone it is not worth going into encryption of all your data as if you work for the NSA. It is suddenly up to you to analyze personally, according to your needs and your desires the level of security that suits you the most.
How to encrypt the data of a Google Pixel 3a?
We start suddenly by revealing the different techniques that are offered to you to encrypt your Google Pixel 3a files . We will reveal them to you in order from the simplest to the most complex. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Google Pixel 3a.
Encrypt your Google Pixel 3a using facial recognition
First of the possibilities that exist, you will be able, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Google Pixel 3a. This is the solution that we recommend the least to you, it obviously has advantages, such as being very quick to have access to your files, only work with you. However, there is a major problem, the majority of facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
However, in the event that you are not afraid that someone will access your files and that you want to use a simple security on your Google Pixel 3a, you can configure it very quickly. in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.
Encrypt your Google Pixel 3a with a password, visual pattern or fingerprint
We decided to collect these different encryption alternatives for Google Pixel 3a in the same part because they all guarantee a close and very satisfactory level of security. These three alternatives differ, one will simply be a 4-digit code like the one on your SIM card that your smartphone will ask you as soon as 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 options will have the same functionality, preventing stranger from accessing your Google Pixel 3a. However, with the diagram and the PIN code, you can lend your smartphone to a loved one and allow them to use 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 using encryption
Last technique, and, you will understand, the one that allows to ensure a maximum of safety, it is encrypt your Google Pixel 3a with a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all the data on your smartphone which will be encrypted, this intervention takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Google Pixel 3a, it may exceed an hour. We recommend this solution for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we suggest you use the application SSE , who will be able to assist you and take charge of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the app on your Google Pixel 3a
- Open SSE
- Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Set a password and validate the process
- You will now be able to access it only through the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt the data of its Google Pixel 3a?
As regards the decryption of data from a Google Pixel 3a , you will have understood it, each encryption procedure 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 this last one that you must write down somewhere and not forget otherwise you risk losing access to your files forever.
If you want as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the Google Pixel 3a, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Google Pixel 3a.
