If your privacy and security on the internet is essential to you, you probably need it to be on your Samsung Galaxy A12 as well. In fact, we use more and more of our mobile phones instead of our laptops and important 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 coherent and useful choice. To do this, you will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy A12? To do this, we will help you by first explaining the interest of these security measures, then all the actions you can take to secure the data on your Samsung Galaxy A12 and how to access it when it is are locked.

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Why does it make sense to encrypt data on a Samsung Galaxy A12?

We therefore start this tutorial by briefly showing you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Samsung Galaxy A12. We will already come back to the notion and describe 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 who will use codes to make the data unreadable without the decryption code. You can also much more easily use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to your data.

Whatever it is and the system you choose to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to set up, more complex to decrypt and therefore longer for you to access your data. . On the other hand, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Samsung Galaxy A12 or who has access to it to get their hands on your data.

To put it simply, each Samsung Galaxy A12 encryption device is suitable for different needs, assuming you don't have very personal things on your smartphone, there's no need to start encrypting 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 level of security that suits you the most.

How to encrypt data from Samsung Galaxy A12?

We therefore start by revealing the different methods available to you. to encrypt the data of your Samsung Galaxy A12 . 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 Samsung Galaxy A12.

Encrypt your Samsung Galaxy A12 using facial recognition

First of the options available to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your Samsung Galaxy A12. This is the technique that we least suggest to you, it certainly has advantages, such as being very fast to have access to your data, only work with you. However, there is a serious problem, 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 data and it is just to put a simple security on your Samsung Galaxy A12 that you want to use it, you can configure it very simply in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.

Encrypt your Samsung Galaxy A12 using a password, visual diagram or fingerprint

We have chosen to collect these different encryption alternatives for Samsung Galaxy A12 in the same section because they all provide a similar and very satisfactory level of security. These three alternatives differ, one will very easily be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your phone will ask you when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will define and which is really complicated to "hack" , and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify…

These three alternatives will have the same functionality, prevent third party access to your Samsung Galaxy A12. Nevertheless, with the pattern and the PIN code you can lend your smartphone to a relative 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 Samsung Galaxy A12 using encryption

Last alternative, and, you will have recorded it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your Samsung Galaxy A12 using a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all the data on your smartphone that can be encrypted, this operation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Samsung Galaxy A12, it can take more than an hour. We therefore suggest 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 have the opportunity to assist you and take care of the entire procedure:

  • Download and install the application on your Samsung Galaxy A12
  • Open SSE
  • Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Choose a password and confirm the operation
  • You will now be able to access it only via the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "

How to decrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy A12?

Concerning decryption of data from a Samsung Galaxy A12 , you will have realized, each manipulation of encryption has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. Nevertheless, for each of them you will create an unlocking or file access solution and the latter that you absolutely must write down somewhere and not forget otherwise you risk losing access to your data forever.

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