If your privacy and security on the internet is essential to you, you certainly want it to be so on your Huawei Y6p as well. Indeed, we use more and more of our smartphones instead of our laptops and essential data is stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts...

Ensuring that your device is a real safe can therefore be a logical and relevant choice. In this context, you will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data from your Huawei Y6p? In this context, we are going to help you by first presenting the interest of these security measures, after that, all the measures that you can implement to secure the files of your Huawei Y6p and how to access them when they are locked.

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Why is it wise to encrypt data on a Huawei Y6p?

We therefore start this guide by quickly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Huawei Y6p. First of all, we are going to come back to the concept and explain for those of you who are not familiar with this computer concept of “Encryption”. Encrypting files is really like encrypting them. protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make files inaccessible 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 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 difficult to decrypt and therefore longer for you to access your files. Despite everything, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Huawei Y6p or who has access to it to recover your data.

To make it easy, each encryption mechanism of Huawei Y6p is adapted to different needs, in the event that you do not have very personal things on your phone it is not worth getting into encryption of all your data as if you work for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to judge personally, according to your needs and your desires, the appropriate level.

How to encrypt data from Huawei Y6p?

We start by showing you the different methods available to you. to encrypt your Huawei Y6p files . We will walk you through them in order from the simplest to the most complex. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Huawei Y6p.

Encrypt your Huawei Y6p using facial recognition

First of the options available to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your Huawei Y6p. This is the technique that we recommend the least to you, of course it has advantages, such as being very quick to have access to your files, only work with you. However, there is a considerable concern, 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 files and it is just to put easy security on your Huawei Y6p that you want to use it, you can configure it very quickly in the menu " Security " from your phone.

Encrypt your Huawei Y6p with a password, a visual pattern or a fingerprint

We have chosen to collect these different encryption alternatives for Huawei Y6p in the same section because they all provide close and very satisfactory level of security. These three alternatives are different, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your mobile phone will ask you for as soon as you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will define 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 functionality, prevent a stranger from accessing your Huawei Y6p. However, with the pattern and the PIN code you can lend your phone to a relative and allow him to use it even if you are not with him, something impossible with the fingerprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your phone.

Encrypt all the data on your Huawei Y6p using encryption

Last solution, and, you will understand, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Huawei Y6p with a data encryption system , you will then have all the data on your phone that can be encrypted, this technique takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Huawei Y6p, this may take several hours. We therefore recommend this solution 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 Huawei Y6p
  • Open SSE
  • Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Select 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 functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "

How to decrypt the data of its Huawei Y6p?

Concerning data decryption of a Huawei Y6p , you will have realized, each encryption procedure has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create an unlocking or file access solution and the latter that you must write down on a piece of paper and do not forget or you risk losing access to ever to your files.

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