If your privacy and security on the internet is important to you, you probably need it to be important on your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 too. Indeed, we use more and more of our phones instead of our computers and essential data passes through them 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 wise choice. To do this, we will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data from your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3? To do this, we will help you by first explaining the interest of these security measures, then all the measures that you can activate to secure the files of your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 and how to access them when 'they are locked.

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What is the point of encrypting data on a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3?

So we start this tutorial by briefly showing you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3. We will first come back to the term explain for those of you who do not know this computer concept of “Encryption”. Encrypting files is basically encrypting them. protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to render files unreadable 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 files.

Whatever it is and the system you decide to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to configure, more difficult to decrypt and therefore longer for you to get your hands on your files. However, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 from you or who has access to it to get their hands on your data.

To put it simply, each encryption mechanism of Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 is adapted 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 define personally, according to your needs and your desires, the appropriate level.

How to encrypt data from Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3?

We start by therefore showing you the different solutions that exist to encrypt files on your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 . We will present 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 Z Flip3.

Encrypt your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 using facial recognition

First of the alternatives that exist, you will be able, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3. This is the technique that we recommend the least to you, of course it has advantages, such as being very quick to access your files, only work with you. That said, there is a fundamental problem, 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 a simple security on your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 that you want to use it, you can configure it very easily in the menu " Security " from your mobile phone.

Encrypt your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 with a password, visual pattern or fingerprint

We have chosen to gather these different encryption possibilities for Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 in the same section because they all guarantee a close 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 as soon as 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 solutions will have the same functionality, prevent third party access to your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3. 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 Z Flip3 using encryption

The last alternative, and, you will understand, the one that ensures maximum security is encrypt your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 with a data encryption system , you will then have all the data on your mobile phone which can be encrypted, this intervention takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3, this may take several hours. We therefore recommend this alternative for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we advise you to use the application SSE , who will be able to assist you and take care of the entire procedure:

  • Download and install the application on your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3
  • Open SSE
  • Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Select 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 data from your Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3?

As regards the decrypting data from a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 , as you will have understood, each encryption manipulation 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 somewhere and do not forget otherwise you risk losing access to your files forever. files.

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