If your privacy and security on the internet is essential to you, you probably need it to be on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite too. Indeed, we use more and more of our mobile phones instead of our laptops and essential data is stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts...

Making your device a real safe can therefore be a logical and relevant choice. To do this, we will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite? To do this, we will help you by first presenting the interest of these security measures, then all the actions that you can activate to secure the files of your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite and how to access them when they are locked.

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What is the point of encrypting data on a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite?

We therefore begin this article by briefly showing you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite. 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 is in fact the same protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make files unreadable without the decryption code. You can also much more easily use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to 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 reach your files. On the other hand, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite or who has access to it to get their hands on your data.

To put it simply, each Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite encryption system corresponds to different needs, assuming you don't have very personal things on your smartphone, there's no need to start encrypting all your datas as if you work for the CIA. It is therefore up to you to analyze personally, according to your needs and your desires, the level of security that suits you the most.

How to encrypt data from a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite?

We start by showing you the different solutions available to you. to encrypt your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite files . We will show 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 Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite.

Encrypt your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite via facial recognition

First of the possibilities that exist, you will be able, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite. This is the solution that we advise you the least, of course it has advantages, such as being very quick to access your files, only work with you .. However, there is a serious problem, 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 files and it is just to put a simple security on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite that you want to use it, you can configure it very easily in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.

Encrypt your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite with a password, a visual pattern or a fingerprint

We decided to collect these different encryption solutions for Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite in the same part because they all guarantee a close and very correct level of security. These three possibilities 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 pattern that you will define 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 functionality, prevent third party access to your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite. However, 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 the data on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite using encryption

Last option, and, you will have assimilated it, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite with a data encryption system , you will have in this case all the data of your smartphone which will be encrypted, this operation requires time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite this can exceed the hour. We therefore recommend this option for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we recommend that you 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 Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite
  • Open SSE
  • Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Define a password and validate the procedure
  • You will now be able to access it only by using the application and the functionality "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "

How to decrypt the data of your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite?

Concerning data decryption of a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite , as you will have understood, each encryption solution 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 the files and the latter that you absolutely must write down somewhere and not forget otherwise you risk losing access to your files forever.

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