In the event that your privacy and your internet security are very important to you, you surely need it to be on your Honor 10i as well. In fact, we always use our phones instead of our laptops and essential data passes through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...

Making your smartphone a real safe can therefore be a coherent and judicious choice. In this context, we will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Honor 10i? In this context, we will help you by first showing you the importance of these security measures, after that, all the measures that you can implement to secure the data on your Honor 10i and how to access it when they are locked.

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Why does it make sense to encrypt data on an Honor 10i?

So we start this tutorial by briefly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Honor 10i. We will first of all come back to the notion and describe for those of you who do not know this computer concept 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 indecipherable without the decryption code. You can also much more simply use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent a third party from reaching your data.

Either way, and the system you choose to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some of which are heavier to configure, more complex to decrypt and therefore take longer for you to access your data. However, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Honor 10i or has access to it to get their hands on your data.

To make it easy, each Honor 10i encryption system is adapted to different expectations, in the event that you do not have very important things on your smartphone, it is not worthwhile to embark on encryption of all your data. like you work for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to analyze personally, according to your expectations and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.

How to encrypt the data of Honor 10i?

We start by revealing the different solutions available to you. to encrypt the data of your Honor 10i . 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 Honor 10i.

Encrypt your Honor 10i using facial recognition

First of the alternatives available to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your Honor 10i. This is the technique that we recommend the least 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 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 you want to use it just to put an easy security on your Honor 10i, you can configure it very quickly in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.

Encrypt your Honor 10i with a password, visual diagram or fingerprint

We chose to bring together these different encryption solutions for Honor 10i in the same part because they all provide a close and very correct level of security. These three alternatives are different, one will simply be a 4-digit code like the one on your SIM card that your smartphone will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram that you will set up and which is particularly complicated to “hack” , and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...

These three options will have the same function, preventing third party access to your Honor 10i. However, 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 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 the data on your Honor 10i using encryption

Last alternative, and, you will have recorded it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your Honor 10i with a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all the data on your smartphone which will be encrypted, this manipulation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Honor 10i it may require several hours. We therefore recommend this option for people for whom the security of their data is essential. To encrypt them, we suggest you use the application SSE , who will be able to accompany you and take charge of the entire procedure:

  • Download and install the application on your Honor 10i
  • Open SSE
  • Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Set a password and validate the process
  • You can now access it only through the application and the function "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "

How to decrypt the data of your Honor 10i?

Concerning data decryption of an Honor 10i , you will understand, each encryption method has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, 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 remember otherwise you risk losing access to your data forever.

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