If ever your privacy and security on the internet is essential to you, you surely want it to be so on your Google Pixel 6a. In fact, we are increasingly using our mobile phones instead of our computers and important data passes through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts...
Making your device a real safe can therefore be a logical and useful choice. In this context, it will be necessary to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data from your Google Pixel 6a? In this context, we are going to help you by first explaining the interest of these security measures, then all the actions that you can activate to secure the data of your Google Pixel 6a and how to access it when they are locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on a Google Pixel 6a?
So we start this article by quickly showing you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Google Pixel 6a. We will already come back to the concept and reveal for those of you who do not know this computer concept of “Encryption”. Encrypting data actually amounts to protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption who will use codes to make the data unreadable without the decryption code. You can also much more easily use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to your data.
Whatever it is and the system you choose to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to set up, more complex to decipher and therefore longer for you to get your hands on. your data. On the other hand, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your Google Pixel 6a or who has access to it to get their hands on your data.
To make it easy, each Google Pixel 6a encryption mechanism corresponds to different needs, assuming you don't have very important things on your mobile phone, there's no need to start encrypting all your data as if you work for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to define subjectively, according to your needs and desires, the appropriate level.
How to encrypt data from a Google Pixel 6a?
We start by presenting you the different solutions that are offered to you. to encrypt the data of your Google Pixel 6a . 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 6a.
Encrypt your Google Pixel 6a using facial recognition
First of the options available to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt data from your Google Pixel 6a. This is the solution that we least suggest to you, it certainly has advantages, such as being very fast to have access to your data, only work with you. However, there is a considerable problem, the majority of facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...
However, in the event that you are not afraid of someone accessing your data and that it is just to put an easy security on your Google Pixel 6a that you want to use it, you can configure it very simply in the menu " Security " from your mobile phone.
Encrypt your Google Pixel 6a using a password, visual pattern or fingerprint
We decided to collect these different encryption alternatives for Google Pixel 6a in the same part because they all guarantee a close and very satisfactory level of security. These three possibilities differ, one will simply be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your device will ask you as soon as you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will determine and which is really difficult to "hack" , and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify…
These three alternatives will have the same function, prevent third party access to your Google Pixel 6a. However, with the pattern and the PIN code you can lend your mobile phone to a relative and give him the possibility of using it even if 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 mobile phone.
Encrypt all data on your Google Pixel 6a using encryption
Last solution, and, you will have recorded it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your Google Pixel 6a with a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all the data on your mobile phone that can be encrypted, this manipulation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Google Pixel 6a it can take more than an hour. We therefore suggest this option for people for whom the security of their data is fundamental. To encrypt them, we advise you to use the application SSE , who will be able to support you and take charge of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the app on your Google Pixel 6a
- Open SSE
- Click on "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 function "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt data from your Google Pixel 6a?
Concerning decryption of data from a Google Pixel 6a , you will have realized, each encryption procedure has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. Nevertheless, for each of them you will create an unlocking or file access solution and the latter that you absolutely must write down somewhere and not forget or else you risk losing access to your files forever. data.
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