If your privacy and security on the internet is essential to you, you surely need it to be on your Vivo Y01 as well. Indeed, we are increasingly using our smartphones instead of our computers and essential data is stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts...

Making your mobile phone a real safe can therefore be a coherent and useful choice. To do this, it will be necessary to assimilate how to encrypt and decrypt data from your Vivo Y01? To do this, we are going to help you by first presenting the interest of these security measures, then, all the measures that you can activate to secure the files of your Vivo Y01 and how to access them when they are locked. .

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What is the point of encrypting data on a Vivo Y01?

We therefore start this article by quickly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Vivo Y01. We will first of all come back to the term explain for those of you who do not know this computer concept 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 the files indecipherable 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 choose to use, each will have its advantages and disadvantages, some are heavier to configure, more difficult to decrypt and therefore longer for you to reach your files. However, it will also be more difficult for someone who steals your Vivo Y01 or who has access to it to get their hands on your data.

To put it simply, each Vivo Y01 encryption device is adapted to different expectations, if you ever don't have very personal things on your mobile phone, there's no need to start encrypting all your data as if you work for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to judge objectively, according to your expectations and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.

How to encrypt data from a Vivo Y01?

We therefore start by revealing to you the different techniques that exist. to encrypt files on your Vivo Y01 . We will reveal them to you in order from the simplest to the most complex. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Vivo Y01.

Encrypt your Vivo Y01 via facial recognition

First of the alternatives that exist, you will be able, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Vivo Y01. This is the technique that we advise you the least, it certainly has advantages, such as being very quick to have access to your files, only work with you. However, there is an important concern, the majority of facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...

However, if you are ever not afraid of someone accessing your files and it is just to put a simple security on your Vivo Y01 that you want to use it, you can configure it very easily in the menu " Security " from your mobile phone.

Encrypt your Vivo Y01 with a password, visual pattern or fingerprint

We have chosen to gather these different encryption possibilities for Vivo Y01 in the same part because they all guarantee a similar and very satisfactory level of security. These three possibilities differ, one will simply be a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your 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 solutions will have the same function, prevent third party access to your Vivo Y01. However, with the scheme and the PIN code you can lend your mobile phone to a relative and give him the possibility of using 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 Vivo Y01 using encryption

Last solution, and, you will understand, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Vivo Y01 with a data encryption system , you will then have all the data on your mobile phone which will be encrypted, this operation requires time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Vivo Y01 this may exceed an hour. We therefore recommend this option 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 accompany you and take care of the entire procedure:

  • Download and install the app on your Vivo Y01
  • Open SSE
  • Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Set a password and confirm the procedure
  • You will now be able to access it only thanks to the application and the function "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "

How to decrypt data from your Vivo Y01?

As regards the decrypting data from a Vivo Y01 , as you will have understood, each encryption procedure has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create a method of 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 your files forever. files.

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