If your privacy and internet security are important to you, you surely need it to be on your HUAWEI P20 Pro as well. In fact, we always use our smartphones more instead of our laptops and important data passes through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...

Making your device a real safe can therefore be a coherent and judicious choice. To do this, you will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data from your HUAWEI P20 Pro? To do this, we will help you by first explaining the value of these security measures, then all the actions that you can activate to secure the data on your HUAWEI P20 Pro and how to access it when it is locked. .

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What is the point of encrypting data on a HUAWEI P20 Pro?

So we start this article by quickly showing you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your HUAWEI P20 Pro. We will already come back to the term explain for those of you who are not comfortable with 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 still 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 are heavier to set up, more difficult to decrypt and therefore take longer for you to access your data. . However, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your HUAWEI P20 Pro or who has access to it to get their hands on your data.

To put it simply, each HUAWEI P20 Pro encryption mechanism is suitable for different needs, assuming you don't have very important things on your mobile phone, you don't have to go into encryption all of them. your data as if you work for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to objectively define the appropriate level according to your needs and desires.

How to encrypt data from HUAWEI P20 Pro?

We start by therefore showing you the different solutions that are offered to you. to encrypt the data of your HUAWEI P20 Pro . 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 HUAWEI P20 Pro.

Encrypt your HUAWEI P20 Pro using facial recognition

First of the options available to you, you can, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your HUAWEI P20 Pro. This is the solution that we recommend the least to you, it certainly has advantages, such as being very quick to access your data, only work with you. However, there is an important concern, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...

However, on the assumption that you are not afraid that someone will access your data and that it is just to put a simple security on your HUAWEI P20 Pro that you want to use it, you can configure it very easily. in the menu " Security " from your mobile phone.

Encrypt your HUAWEI P20 Pro using a password, visual diagram or a fingerprint

We have chosen to collect these different encryption alternatives for HUAWEI P20 Pro in the same section because they all provide a similar 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 phone will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram that you will define and which is really complicated to “hack” , and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...

These three solutions will have the same function, preventing stranger from accessing your HUAWEI P20 Pro. However, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your mobile phone to a loved one and allow them to use 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 mobile phone.

Encrypt all data on your HUAWEI P20 Pro using encryption

Last option, and, you will have recorded it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your HUAWEI P20 Pro with a data encryption system , in this case you will have all the data on your mobile phone which can be encrypted, this intervention requires time, depending on the volume of data stored on your HUAWEI P20 Pro it may take more than an hour. We therefore recommend this solution for people for whom the security of their data is essential. To encrypt them, we advise you to use the application SSE , who will be able to assist you and take care of the entire procedure:

  • Download and install the app on your HUAWEI P20 Pro
  • Open SSE
  • Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Choose 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 its HUAWEI P20 Pro?

Concerning HUAWEI P20 Pro data decryption , you will understand, each encryption solution has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create an unlocking or file access procedure and the latter that you must write down somewhere and not forget otherwise you risk losing access to your data forever. .

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