If ever your privacy and security on the internet is essential to you, you probably want it to be so on your Honor X7 as well. Indeed, we use more and more of our 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 smartphone a real safe can suddenly be a logical and wise choice. In this context, you will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt the data of your Honor X7? 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 Honor X7 and how to access them when they are locked.

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What is the point of encrypting data on an Honor X7?

So we start this tutorial by quickly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Honor X7. We will first of all come back to the term describe for those of you who are not comfortable with this computer notion of "Encryption". Encrypting files actually comes down to them. protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make files unreadable without the decryption code. You can still much more simply 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 access your files. However, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Honor X7 from you or who has access to it to recover your data.

To make it easy, each Honor X7 encryption method is adapted to different requirements, if you ever don't have very personal things on your mobile phone, there's no need to start encrypting all your data as if you work for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to judge objectively, according to your requirements and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.

How to encrypt data from an Honor X7?

We start suddenly by exposing you to the different methods available to you. to encrypt the files of your Honor X7 . We'll walk you through them in order from most basic to most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by modifying the IP address of your Honor X7.

Encrypt your Honor X7 via facial recognition

First of the possibilities available to you, you can, use facial recognition to encrypt your Honor X7 data. This is the technique that we advise you the least, it certainly has advantages, such as being very quick to access your files, only work with you. However, there is an important problem, the majority of facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...

However, if you are ever not afraid of someone accessing your files and it is just to put an easy security on your Honor X7 that you want to use it, you can configure it very quickly in the menu " Security " from your mobile phone.

Encrypt your Honor X7 with a password, a visual pattern or a fingerprint

We decided to gather these different encryption options for Honor X7 in the same part because they all guarantee a similar and very correct level of security. These three possibilities are different, one will be very simply a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your phone will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will determine and which is particularly complicated to "hacker", and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify...

These three options will have the same function, prevent access to a third party to your Honor X7. Nevertheless, 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 the data on your Honor X7 using encryption

Last alternative, and, you will have recorded it, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Honor X7 with a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all the data on your mobile phone which can be encrypted, this technique takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Honor X7 this may take several hours. We therefore recommend this option for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we advise you to use the application SSE , who will be able to assist you and take charge of the entire procedure:

  • Download and install the application on your Honor X7
  • Open SSE
  • Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Set a password and confirm the operation
  • You will now be able to access it only through the application and the function "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "

How to decrypt the data of your Honor X7?

As regards the Honor X7 data decryption , as you will have understood, each encryption solution 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 the latter that you must imperatively write down on a piece of paper and do not forget or else you risk losing access to ever to your files.

In the event that you are looking for as many tutorials as possible to become the king of the Honor X7, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Honor X7.