In the event that your privacy and security on the internet is important to you, you surely want it to be so on your Samsung Galaxy M12 as well. In fact, we are increasingly using our phones instead of our laptops and important data passes through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts...

Ensuring that your phone is a real safe can therefore be a coherent and relevant choice. In this context, it will be necessary to assimilate how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy M12? In this context, we will help you by first explaining the interest of these security measures, then all the measures that you can implement to secure the data of your Samsung Galaxy M12 and how to access it when they are locked.

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What is the point of encrypting data on a Samsung Galaxy M12?

We begin this guide by briefly teaching you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Samsung Galaxy M12. First of all, we are going to come back to the term “describe” for those of you who are not comfortable with this computer concept of “Encryption”. Encrypting data actually amounts to 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 easily use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent a third party from reaching your data.

Whatever it is and the system you decide 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 reach your data. Despite everything, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your Samsung Galaxy M12 or who has access to it to recover your data.

To put it simply, each Samsung Galaxy M12 encryption system corresponds to different expectations, in the event that you do not have very personal things on your mobile phone, there is no need to start 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 Samsung Galaxy M12?

We start by therefore showing you the different techniques that are offered to you. to encrypt the data of your Samsung Galaxy M12 . We will present them to you in the order from the simplest to the most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Samsung Galaxy M12.

Encrypt your Samsung Galaxy M12 using facial recognition

First of the options available to you, you can, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your Samsung Galaxy M12. This is the solution that we advise you the least, of course it has advantages, such as being very quick to access your data, only work with you. That said, there is a major concern, 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 M12 that you want to use it, you can configure it very easily in the menu " Security " from your mobile phone.

Encrypt your Samsung Galaxy M12 with a password, a visual pattern or a fingerprint

We have chosen to gather these different encryption solutions for Samsung Galaxy M12 in the same section because they all guarantee a close and very correct level of security. These three alternatives differ, one will be in a very simple way a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your mobile phone will ask you as soon as you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will determine and which is really difficult to "hack", and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify...

These three options will have the same functionality, prevent third party access to your Samsung Galaxy M12. 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 fingerprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your mobile phone.

Encrypt all the data on your Samsung Galaxy M12 using encryption

Last technique, and, you will have recorded it, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Samsung Galaxy M12 with a data encryption system , in this case you will have all the data on your mobile phone that can be encrypted, this operation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Samsung Galaxy M12, it can take more than an hour. We therefore recommend this option 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 Samsung Galaxy M12
  • Open SSE
  • Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Choose a password and validate the operation
  • You will now be able to access it only through the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "

How to decrypt data on your Samsung Galaxy M12?

Concerning decryption of data from a Samsung Galaxy M12 , 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 technique for unlocking or accessing files and this last one that you absolutely must write down on a piece of paper and do not forget otherwise you risk losing access to it forever. your data.

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