If your privacy and security on the internet is essential to you, you certainly want it to be so on your Pocophone M5 as well. Indeed, we use more and more of our smartphones instead of our computers and important data is stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts...
Making sure that your mobile phone is a real safe can therefore be a logical and useful choice. To do this, you will have to assimilate how to encrypt and decrypt data from your Pocophone M5? To do this, we are going to help you by first showing you the interest of these security measures, then all the actions you can take to secure the files on your Pocophone M5 and how to access them when they are locked.
What is the point of encrypting data on a Pocophone M5?
We therefore start this guide by quickly teaching you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Pocophone M5. We will first of all come back to the term describe for those of you who are not comfortable with this computer notion of "Encryption". Encrypting files actually comes down to 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 access to your files.
Whatever the case and the system you decide to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to set up, more difficult to decipher and therefore take longer for you to get your hands on your files. Despite everything, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Pocophone M5 or who has access to it to get their hands on your data.
To make it easy, each encryption device of Pocophone M5 corresponds to different needs, in the event that you do not have very personal things on your mobile phone it is not worth getting into encryption of all your data as if you work for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to judge personally, according to your needs and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.
How to encrypt data from Pocophone M5?
We start off by showing you the different methods available to you to encrypt the files of your Pocophone M5 . We'll 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 Pocophone M5.
Encrypt your Pocophone M5 via facial recognition
First of the possibilities offered to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your Pocophone M5. This is the solution that we advise you the least, of course it has advantages, such as being very quick to access your files, only work with you. That said, there is a major concern, most 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 an easy security on your Pocophone M5 that you want to use it, you can configure it very quickly in the menu " Security " from your mobile phone.
Encrypt your Pocophone M5 with a password, a visual pattern or a fingerprint
We have chosen to gather these different encryption options for Pocophone M5 in the same part because they all guarantee a similar and very correct level of security. These three options differ, one will very easily be a 4 digit code like that of your SIM card that your device will ask you every time you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will set and which is really complicated to " hacker", and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify...
These three possibilities will have the same functionality, prevent access to a stranger to your Pocophone M5. That said, with the pattern and the PIN code you can lend your mobile phone to a relative and allow him to use it even if you are not with him, something impossible with the imprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your mobile phone.
Encrypt all the data on your Pocophone M5 using encryption
Last option, and, you will have saved it, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Pocophone M5 with a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all the data from your mobile phone which will be encrypted, this operation requires time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Pocophone M5 it can take more than an hour. We therefore recommend this alternative for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we suggest you 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 Pocophone M5
- Open SSE
- Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
- Choose a password and complete the process
- 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 his Pocophone M5?
Concerning decrypting data from a Pocophone M5 , as you will have understood, each encryption procedure has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. That said, for each of them you will create a solution for unlocking or accessing files and the latter that you must write down on a piece of paper and do not forget or you risk losing access forever. to your files.
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