If your privacy and your internet security are very important to you, you certainly want it to be on your Google Pixel 4 XL as well. In fact, we always 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 your mobile phone a real safe can suddenly be a coherent and relevant choice. For that, we will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data from your Google Pixel 4 XL? For this, we will help you by introducing you to start the interest of these security measures, after that, all the measures that you can activate to secure the data of your Google Pixel 4 XL and how to access it when they are locked.
Why does it make sense to encrypt data on a Google Pixel 4 XL?
We start this article by quickly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the data on your Google Pixel 4 XL. We will first of all come back to the notion and reveal for those of you who do not know this computer notion of "Encryption". Encrypting data actually comes down to protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make the data indecipherable without the decryption code. You can also much more easily use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to your data.
Either way and the system you choose to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to set up, more complex to decrypt and therefore take longer for you to reach your data. However, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Google Pixel 4 XL or who has access to it to get their hands on your data.
To put it simply, each Google Pixel 4 XL encryption system is suited to different needs, in the event that you don't have very personal things on your smartphone it is not worth going into encryption all of them. your data as if you work for the CIA. It is suddenly up to you to analyze objectively, 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 4 XL?
We start by presenting you the different techniques that are offered to you. to encrypt the data on your Google Pixel 4 XL . We will present them to you in the order of the simplest to the most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Google Pixel 4 XL.
Encrypt your Google Pixel 4 XL using facial recognition
First of the options that exist, you will be able, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your Google Pixel 4 XL. This is the solution that we advise you the least, it obviously has advantages, such as being very fast to have access to your data, only work with you. However, there is a serious concern, 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 data and that it is just to put a simple security on your Google Pixel 4 XL that you want to use it, you can configure it very easily in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.
Encrypt your Google Pixel 4 XL using a password, visual pattern or fingerprint
We have chosen to bring together these different encryption alternatives for Google Pixel 4 XL in the same part because they all provide a close and very correct level of security. These three possibilities are different, one will simply be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your mobile 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 complicated to hack », And finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...
These three possibilities will have the same functionality, preventing stranger from accessing your Google Pixel 4 XL. 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 4 XL using encryption
Last solution, and, you will understand, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Google Pixel 4 XL with a data encryption system , in this case you will have all the data on your smartphone which can be encrypted, this operation requires time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Google Pixel 4 XL it may take several hours. We therefore recommend this solution for people for whom the security of their data is fundamental. To encrypt them, we recommend that you use the application SSE , who will have the opportunity to assist you and take charge of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the application on your Google Pixel 4 XL
- Open SSE
- Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Choose a password and confirm the operation
- You will now be able to access it only by using the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt the data of its Google Pixel 4 XL?
Concerning decryption of data from a Google Pixel 4 XL , you will have realized it, each encryption manipulation has its advantages and its disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create a method of unlocking or accessing the files and this last one that you must imperatively write down on a piece of paper and not forget or else you risk losing access forever. your data.
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