If your privacy and security on the internet is important to you, you probably need it to be on your Wiko Y62 as well. Indeed, we use more and more of our mobile phones instead of our computers and important data passes through them such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts...

Making sure your smartphone is a real safe can suddenly be a logical and useful choice. For this, it will be necessary to assimilate how to encrypt and decrypt the data of your Wiko Y62? To do this, we are going to help you by first explaining the interest of these security measures, then all the actions you can take to secure the data of your Wiko Y62 and how to access it when they are locked.

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What is the point of encrypting data on a Wiko Y62?

We therefore start this tutorial by briefly teaching you what interest you will have in encrypting the data of your Wiko Y62. We will first of all come back to the concept and explain for those of you who do not know this computer concept of “Encryption”. Encrypting data actually amounts to 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 simply 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 take longer for you to reach your data. Despite everything, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Wiko Y62 from you or who has access to it to recover your data.

To put it simply, each encryption system of Wiko Y62 is adapted to different requirements, if you ever do not have very important things on your smartphone it is not worth getting into the encryption of all your data as if you work for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to define subjectively, according to your requirements and your desires, the appropriate level.

How to encrypt data from a Wiko Y62?

We start suddenly by revealing the different methods available to you to encrypt the data of your Wiko Y62 . We will reveal them to you in order from the most basic to the most complex. You can also secure your internet browsing by modifying the IP address of your Wiko Y62.

Encrypt your Wiko Y62 using facial recognition

First of the possibilities offered to you, you will be able to, use facial recognition to encrypt the data of your Wiko Y62. 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. That said, there is a fundamental problem, the majority of facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...

However, if you are ever not afraid of someone accessing your data and it is just to put a simple security on your Wiko Y62 that you want to use it, you can configure it very easily in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.

Encrypt your Wiko Y62 using a password, a visual pattern or a fingerprint

We have chosen to gather these different encryption options for Wiko Y62 in the same part because they all provide a similar and very correct level of security. These three alternatives are different, one will be in a very simple way 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 diagram that you will configure and which is particularly complicated to "hacker", and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify...

These three solutions will have the same function, prevent access to a stranger to your Wiko Y62. That said, with the pattern and the PIN code you can lend your smartphone 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 smartphone.

Encrypt all data from your Wiko Y62 using encryption

Last technique, and, you will have recorded it, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Wiko Y62 using a data encryption system , in this case you will have all the data on your smartphone which will be encrypted, this intervention takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Wiko Y62, this may exceed an hour. We therefore suggest this solution 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 accompany you and take care of the entire procedure:

  • Download and install the application on your Wiko Y62
  • Open SSE
  • Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Set a password and confirm the procedure
  • You will now be able to access it only via the application and the function "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "

How to decrypt the data of your Wiko Y62?

As regards the decrypting data from a Wiko Y62 , you will have realized, each manipulation of encryption 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 the latter that you must write down somewhere and not forget otherwise you risk losing access to your data forever.

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