In the event that your privacy and internet security are essential for you, you surely need it to be essential on your Google Pixel 4 as well. Indeed, our phones are being used more and more instead of our computers and important data pass through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...
Making your mobile phone a real safe can suddenly be a logical and useful choice. To do this, you are going to have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Google Pixel 4? To do this, we will help you by first explaining the value of these security measures, then all the actions that you can activate to secure the data on your Google Pixel 4 and how to access it when they are locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on a Google Pixel 4?
So we start this article by quickly showing you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Google Pixel 4. 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 is in fact a matter of protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make the data inaccessible without the decryption code. You can also much more easily use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to your data.
Anyway 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 longer for you to access. your data. However, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your Google Pixel 4 or has access to it to get hold of your data.
To put it simply, each Google Pixel 4 encryption method is suited to different requirements, so if you don't have some very personal things on your smartphone, don't bother going into encrypting all your data as if you work for the CIA. It is suddenly up to you to define objectively, according to your requirements and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.
How to encrypt the data of a Google Pixel 4?
We start by showing you the different techniques available to you to encrypt the data of your Google Pixel 4 . We'll show them to you in order from most basic to most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Google Pixel 4.
Encrypt your Google Pixel 4 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. This is the technique that we advise you the least, it has of course advantages, such as being very fast to have access to your data, only work with you .. That said, there is a serious problem, the majority of facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
Having said that, if you are not afraid that someone is accessing your data and that you just want to use a simple security on your Google Pixel 4, you can configure it very easily in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.
Encrypt your Google Pixel 4 using a password, visual pattern or fingerprint
We chose to bring together these different encryption options for Google Pixel 4 in the same part because they all provide a close and very correct level of security. These three possibilities are different, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your device will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram that you will define 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 function, preventing stranger from accessing your Google Pixel 4. That said, 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're not with him, that's impossible with the imprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your smartphone.
Encrypt all data on your Google Pixel 4 using encryption
Last technique, and, you will understand, the one that allows you to ensure maximum safety, it is encrypt your Google Pixel 4 using a data encryption system , you will then have all the data on your smartphone which can be encrypted, this operation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Google Pixel 4, it may take more than an hour. We therefore recommend this solution for people for whom the security of their data is essential. To encrypt them, we recommend that you use the application SSE , who will be able to accompany you and take care of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the app on your Google Pixel 4
- Open SSE
- Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Choose a password and confirm the procedure
- You will now be able to access it only by using the application and the function "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt the data of its Google Pixel 4?
As regards the decryption of data from a Google Pixel 4 , you will have realized it, each encryption solution has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. That said, for each of them you will create a method of unlocking or accessing files and this last one that you absolutely must write down somewhere and not forget or else you risk losing access to your data forever. .
If you ever want a maximum of tutorials to become the king of the Google Pixel 4, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Google Pixel 4.
