In the event that your privacy and your internet security are essential for you, you probably need it as well on your LG G6. In fact, we are using more and more of our smartphones instead of our computers and essential data is stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...

Ensuring that your mobile phone is a real safe can therefore be a coherent and judicious choice. To do this, we will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your LG G6? To do this, we will help you by first explaining the value of these security measures, then all the measures that you can activate to secure the data on your LG G6 and how to access it when it is locked.

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Why does it make sense to encrypt data on an LG G6?

We begin this guide by briefly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your LG G6. We will first of all come back to the term 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 still much more simply use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to your data.

Whatever the case, and the system you choose to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to configure, more complex to decipher and therefore take longer for you to get your hands on your devices. data. However, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your LG G6 or who has access to it to recover your data.

To make it easy, each LG G6 encryption device is suited to different expectations, in the event that you don't have very personal things on your smartphone, don't bother going into encrypting all your data. as if you work for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to analyze objectively, according to your expectations and your desires, the appropriate level.

How to encrypt data from LG G6?

We start by therefore showing you the different solutions that exist to encrypt the data of your LG G6 . 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 LG G6.

Encrypt your LG G6 using facial recognition

First of the possibilities that exist, you will be able, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your LG G6. This is the technique that we advise you the least, it has of course advantages, such as being very fast to have access to your data, only work with you. However, there is a fundamental concern, most 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 it is just to put an easy security on your LG G6 that you want to use it, you can set it up very easily in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.

Encrypt LG G6 Using a Password, Visual Pattern or Fingerprint

We have chosen to collect these different encryption alternatives for LG G6 in the same section because they all guarantee a similar and very satisfactory level of security. These three options are different, one will simply be a 4-digit code like the one on your SIM card that your device will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram that you will set up 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 third party access to your LG G6. However, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your smartphone 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 smartphone.

Encrypt all data on your LG G6 using encryption

Last solution, and, you will have recorded it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your LG G6 with a data encryption system , in this case you will have all the data on your smartphone which will be encrypted, this technique takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your LG G6 it can take more than an hour. We therefore recommend this solution for people for whom the security of their data is fundamental. 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 app on your LG G6
  • Open SSE
  • Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Define a password and validate 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 LG G6?

As regards the LG G6 data decryption , you will have understood it, each encryption procedure has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create a technique of unlocking or access to files and this last one that you absolutely must write down on a piece of paper and not forget otherwise you risk losing access forever. to your data.

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