If your privacy and your internet security are essential for you, you certainly need it as well on your LG K40S. Indeed, we increasingly use our phones instead of our computers and essential data passes through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...

Making your phone a real safe can therefore be a logical and relevant choice. For this, we will have to assimilate how to encrypt and decrypt data from your LG K40S? 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 LG K40S and how to access it when they are locked.

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What is the point of encrypting data on an LG K40S?

We begin this article by briefly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your LG K40S. We will first of all come back to the notion and explain for those of you who are not comfortable with this computer notion 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 also much more simply use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent a third party from reaching your data.

Anyway, and the system you choose to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to configure, more complex to decrypt and therefore take longer for you to reach your data. However, it will also be more complicated for a person who steals your LG K40S or has access to it to get hold of your data.

To make it easy, each LG K40S encryption device corresponds to different expectations, if ever you don't have some very important things on your smartphone, don't bother to go into encrypting all your data as if you are working. for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to define subjectively, according to your expectations and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.

How to encrypt data from LG K40S?

We start by showing you the different techniques that exist to encrypt the data of your LG K40S . We will show them to you in order from most basic to most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your LG K40S.

Encrypt your LG K40S using facial recognition

First of the alternatives available to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your LG K40S. This is the technique that we recommend the least to you, of course it has advantages, such as being very fast to have access to your data, only work with you. However, there is a fundamental problem, the majority of facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...

However, if you are not afraid that someone will access your data and if you just want to put an easy security on your LG K40S that you want to use it, you can configure it very quickly in the menu. " Security " from your smartphone.

Encrypt LG K40S with a password, visual pattern or fingerprint

We have chosen to collect these different encryption options for LG K40S in the same section because they all guarantee a similar and very correct 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 device will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram that you will determine and which is particularly complicated to hack », And finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...

These three alternatives will have the same functionality, preventing third party access to your LG K40S. Despite everything, 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 K40S using encryption

Last alternative, and, you will understand, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your LG K40S with a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all the data on your smartphone which will be encrypted, this operation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your LG K40S, it may exceed an hour. We therefore recommend this option for people for whom the security of their data is essential. To encrypt them, we recommend that you use the application SSE , who will be able to accompany you and take charge of the entire procedure:

  • Download and install the application on your LG K40S
  • Open SSE
  • Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Set a password and confirm the procedure
  • You will now be able to access it only by using the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "

How to decrypt data from its LG K40S?

As regards the LG K40S data decryption , you will have assimilated it, each encryption technique has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. Nevertheless, for each of them you will create an unlocking or access to files procedure and the latter that you must imperatively write down on a piece of paper and not forget or you risk losing access forever to your data.

If you want as many tutorials as possible to become the absolute master of the LG K40S, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: LG K40S.