If your privacy and internet security are essential for you, you probably need it as well on your Meizu 16s. 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 ...

Making your device a real safe can therefore be a logical and useful choice. In this context, we will have to assimilate how to encrypt and decrypt data from your Meizu 16s? In this context, we will help you by first explaining the value of these security measures, then all the measures that you can implement to secure the data on your Meizu 16s and how to access it when it is. locked.

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What is the point of encrypting data on a Meizu 16s?

We start this guide by quickly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Meizu 16s. We will already come back to the notion and reveal for those of you who are not comfortable with this computer notion of "Encryption". Encrypting data actually comes down to protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption who will use codes to make the data unreadable without the decryption code. You can still much more easily 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 of which are heavier to set up, more complex to decrypt and therefore take longer for you to reach your data. On the other hand, it will also be more complicated for a person who steals your Meizu 16s or who has access to it to recover your data.

To make it easy, each Meizu 16s encryption system corresponds to different requirements, in the event that you do not have very important things on your smartphone, it is not worth going into encryption of all your data like if you work for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to judge subjectively, according to your requirements and your desires the appropriate level.

How to encrypt the data of a Meizu 16s?

We start by therefore explaining the different methods available to you. to encrypt the data of your Meizu 16s . We will expose them to you in the order of the most basic to the most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Meizu 16s.

Encrypt your Meizu 16s using facial recognition

First of the options that exist, you will be able, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Meizu 16s. This is the technique that we recommend the least to you, it certainly has advantages, such as being very fast to have access to your data, only work with you .. That said, there is a serious problem, most facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...

That said, in the event that you are not afraid that someone will access your data and that you want to use it just to provide easy security on your Meizu 16s, you can configure it very quickly. in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.

Encrypt your Meizu 16s with a password, visual diagram or fingerprint

We decided to bring together these different encryption solutions for Meizu 16s in the same part because they all provide a close and very satisfactory level of security. These three alternatives are different, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like the one on your SIM card that your device will ask you as soon as you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram that you are going to define and which is really complicated to " hacker ”, and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...

These three alternatives will have the same function, preventing third party access to your Meizu 16s. That said, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your smartphone to a loved one and give him the possibility of using 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 smartphone.

Encrypt all data on your Meizu 16s using encryption

Last option, and, you will understand, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Meizu 16s using 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 Meizu 16s it may require several hours. We therefore recommend this alternative 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 charge of the entire procedure:

  • Download and install the application on your Meizu 16s
  • 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 by using the application and the function "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "

How to decrypt the data of my Meizu 16s?

As regards the data decryption of a Meizu 16s , you will have assimilated it, each encryption solution has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. That said, for each of them you will create a method of unlocking or accessing files and this last one that you absolutely must write down somewhere and not forget or else you risk losing access to your data forever. .

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