In the event that your privacy and your internet security are essential for you, you surely need it to be as well on your HUAWEI Mate 20 X. Indeed, we always use more of our phones instead of our laptops and essential data pass through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...

Making your smartphone a real safe can therefore be a logical and useful choice. To do this, you will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your HUAWEI Mate 20 X? To do this, we will help you by first explaining the value of these security measures, then all the measures you can take to secure your HUAWEI Mate 20 X files and how to access them when 'they are locked.

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What is the point of encrypting data on a HUAWEI Mate 20 X?

We therefore start this tutorial by briefly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your HUAWEI Mate 20 X. 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 actually comes down to them. protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make the files indecipherable without the decryption code. You can also much more easily use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to your files.

Anyway and the system you decide to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to set up, more difficult to decrypt and therefore take longer for you to access your files. On the other hand, it will also be more difficult for a person who steals your HUAWEI Mate 20 X from you or who has access to it to recover your data.

To make it easy, each HUAWEI Mate 20 X encryption method corresponds to different requirements, in the event that you don't have very important things on your smartphone it is not worth going into encryption of all your data as if you work for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to subjectively analyze, according to your requirements and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.

How to encrypt data from HUAWEI Mate 20 X?

We start by showing you the different methods that exist to encrypt your HUAWEI Mate 20 X files . We will walk you through them in order from most basic to most complex. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your HUAWEI Mate 20 X.

Encrypt your HUAWEI Mate 20 X using facial recognition

First of the possibilities available to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your HUAWEI Mate 20 X. This is the technique that we recommend the least to you, 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, 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 files and that it is just to put an easy security on your HUAWEI Mate 20 X that you want to use it, you can configure it very easily in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.

Encrypt your HUAWEI Mate 20 X using a password, visual diagram or a fingerprint

We have chosen to bring together these different encryption possibilities for HUAWEI Mate 20 X in the same section because they all provide a similar and very correct level of security. These three options are different, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like the one on 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 define and which is particularly difficult to hack. », And finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...

These three possibilities will have the same functionality, preventing stranger from accessing your HUAWEI Mate 20 X. 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 him, something 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 HUAWEI Mate 20 X using encryption

Last solution, and, you will have recorded it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your HUAWEI Mate 20 X using a data encryption system , you will then have all the data on your smartphone that will be encrypted, this manipulation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your HUAWEI Mate 20 X, it may take several hours. We therefore recommend this alternative for people for whom the security of their files 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 application on your HUAWEI Mate 20 X
  • Open SSE
  • Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Set a password and confirm the procedure
  • You will now be able to access it only through the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "

How to decrypt the data of its HUAWEI Mate 20 X?

Concerning data decryption of a HUAWEI Mate 20 X , you will have understood it, each encryption method has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you are going to create a method of unlocking or accessing files and this one that you absolutely must write down somewhere and remember or else you may lose access to your files forever.

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