In the event that your privacy and security on the internet is essential for you, you surely want it to be so on your Google Pixel 6 as well. Indeed, we use more and more of our smartphones instead of our laptops and important data are stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts...
Making your smartphone a real safe can suddenly be a coherent and wise choice. In this context, you will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Google Pixel 6? In this context, we will help you by first explaining the interest of these security measures, then all the measures that you can activate to secure the files of your Google Pixel 6 and how to access them when they are locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on a Google Pixel 6?
We start this guide by quickly teaching you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Google Pixel 6. We will first of all come back to the term reveal for those of you who do not know this computer concept 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 a third party from reaching your files.
Whatever it is and the system you decide 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 files. On the other hand, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your Google Pixel 6 or who has access to it to recover your data.
To make it easy, each encryption device of Google Pixel 6 is adapted to different needs, if you don't have very personal things on your phone it's not worth to start encrypting all your data as if you work for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to define objectively, according to your needs and desires, the level of security that best suits you.
How to encrypt data from a Google Pixel 6?
We start suddenly by revealing the different techniques that exist to encrypt files on your Google Pixel 6 . We will reveal 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 6.
Encrypt your Google Pixel 6 using facial recognition
First of the options that exist, you can, use facial recognition to encrypt data from your Google Pixel 6. This is the solution that we advise you the least, it obviously has advantages, such as being very quick to have access to your files, only work with you. However, there is a serious concern, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
However, if you are not afraid of someone accessing your files and it is just to put an easy security on your Google Pixel 6 that you want to use it, you can configure it very quickly in the menu " Security " from your phone.
Encrypt your Google Pixel 6 with a password, visual pattern or fingerprint
We decided to collect these different encryption options for Google Pixel 6 in the same section because they all guarantee a close and very correct level of security. These three possibilities differ, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your smartphone will ask you for as soon as you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern 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 access to a third party to your Google Pixel 6. However, with the scheme and the PIN code you can lend your phone to a loved one and give them the possibility of using it even in the in case you are not with him, something impossible with the imprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your phone.
Encrypt all the data on your Google Pixel 6 using encryption
Last alternative, and, you will have recorded it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your Google Pixel 6 using a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all of your phone's data that can be encrypted, this operation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Google Pixel 6, it can take more than an hour. We therefore recommend this option for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we recommend using the app SSE , who will be able to accompany you and take care of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the app on your Google Pixel 6
- Open SSE
- Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Set a password and confirm the process
- You will now be able to access it only via the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt data from your Google Pixel 6?
As regards the decryption of data from a Google Pixel 6 , as you will have understood, each manipulation of encryption has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. Nevertheless, for each of them you will create a technique for unlocking or accessing files and this last one that you absolutely must write down on a piece of paper and do not forget or you risk losing access to it forever. your files.
In the event that you want as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the Google Pixel 6, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Google Pixel 6.
