If ever your privacy and security on the internet is paramount to you, you probably need it to be on your Vivo Y21 too. Indeed, we use more and more of 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...
Making your mobile phone a real safe can therefore be a coherent and relevant choice. In this context, it will be necessary to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data from your Vivo Y21? In this context, we will help you by first explaining the interest of these security measures, then, all the actions that you can activate to secure the data of your Vivo Y21 and how to access it when it is locked.
Why is it wise to encrypt data on a Vivo Y21?
We therefore begin this guide by briefly showing you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Vivo Y21. We will first of all come back to the notion and reveal for those of you who are not comfortable with this computer concept of "Encryption". Encrypting data actually comes down to protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make data inaccessible 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 difficult to decrypt and therefore longer for you to access. your data. Despite everything, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Vivo Y21 or who has access to it to get their hands on your data.
To make it easy, each encryption device of Vivo Y21 is adapted to different needs, in the event that you do not have very important things on your smartphone it is not necessary 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 needs and your desires, the appropriate level.
How to encrypt data from a Vivo Y21?
We therefore start by revealing the different solutions available to you. to encrypt the data of your Vivo Y21 . We will 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 Vivo Y21.
Encrypt your Vivo Y21 using facial recognition
First of the alternatives available to you, you can, use facial recognition to encrypt data on your Vivo Y21. This is the solution that we recommend the least to you, of course it has advantages, such as being very quick to access your data, only work with you. However, 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 an easy security on your Vivo Y21 that you want to use it, you can configure it very simply in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.
Encrypt your Vivo Y21 with a password, visual pattern or fingerprint
We decided to collect these different encryption options for Vivo Y21 in the same part because they all ensure a close and very correct level of security. These three options are different, one will be in a very simple way a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your device will ask you for when you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual diagram that you will configure and which is really complicated to "hacker", 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 Y21. However, 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 the data on your Vivo Y21 using encryption
Last technique, and, you will have recorded it, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Vivo Y21 with a data encryption system , you will then have all the data on your smartphone which will be encrypted, this technique takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Vivo Y21 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 recommend that you use the application SSE , who will be able to assist you and take care of the entire procedure:
- Download and install the app on your Vivo Y21
- Open SSE
- Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
- Choose 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 function "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "
How to decrypt data from your Vivo Y21?
Concerning decrypting data from a Vivo Y21 As you will have understood, each encryption method has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, 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 or else you risk losing access to it forever. your data.
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