In the event that your privacy and security on the internet is essential for you, you surely want it to be so on your Xiaomi Mi 11 as well. In fact, we are using our phones more and more at the place of our computers and essential data are stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pin codes or different accounts...

Making your smartphone a real safe can therefore be a logical and useful choice. To do this, it will be necessary to assimilate how to encrypt and decrypt data from your Xiaomi Mi 11? To do this, we will help you by first presenting the interest of these security measures, after that, all the measures that you can implement to secure the files of your Xiaomi Mi 11 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?

We start this guide by quickly explaining to you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your Xiaomi Mi 11. We will already come back to the term explain for those of you who are not comfortable with this computer concept of "Encryption". Encrypting files is actually the same as protect through several means, you can use systems of encryption which will use codes to make files inaccessible without the decryption code. You can also much more simply use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent access to 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 access your files. However, it will also be more complicated for someone who steals your Xiaomi Mi 11 or who has access to it to recover your data.

To put it simply, each encryption mechanism of Xiaomi Mi 11 corresponds to different needs, in the event that you do not have very important things on your 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 analyze subjectively, according to your needs and desires, the appropriate level.

How to encrypt data from a Xiaomi Mi 11?

We start by showing you the different techniques available to you. to encrypt the files of your Xiaomi Mi 11 . We will present them to you in the order from the simplest to the most secure. You can also secure your internet browsing by changing the IP address of your Xiaomi Mi 11.

Encrypt your Xiaomi Mi 11 via facial recognition

First of the alternatives offered to you, you can, use facial recognition to encrypt data from your Xiaomi Mi 11. This is the technique that we least suggest to you, it obviously has advantages, such as being very quick to access your files, only work with you. However, there is an important 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 Xiaomi Mi 11 that you want to use it, you can configure it very simply in the menu " Security " from your phone.

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

We decided to collect these different encryption options for Xiaomi Mi 11 in the same section because they all guarantee a similar and very correct level of security. These three possibilities differ, one will be very simply a 4-digit code like that of your SIM card that your smartphone will ask you for as soon as you want to unlock it, the second will be a visual pattern that you will define and which is particularly complicated to "hacker", and finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify...

These three possibilities will have the same functionality, preventing access to a stranger to your Xiaomi Mi 11. Despite everything, with the pattern and the PIN code you can lend your phone to a loved one and give him the possibility of using it even in in case 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 phone.

Encrypt all the data on your Xiaomi Mi 11 using encryption

Last solution, and, you will have recorded it, the one that allows you to ensure maximum security, it is encrypt your Xiaomi Mi 11 with a data encryption system , in this case you will have all of your phone's data which will be encrypted, this operation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your Xiaomi Mi 11 this may take several hours. We therefore suggest this solution for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we advise you to use the application SSE , who will have the opportunity to assist you and take care of the entire procedure:

  • Download and install the application on your Xiaomi Mi 11
  • Open SSE
  • Click on "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Choose the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Choose a password and confirm the process
  • 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?

Concerning decrypting data from a Xiaomi Mi 11 , you will have realized, each encryption procedure has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. Nevertheless, for each of them you will create a procedure for unlocking or accessing files and the latter that you must write down somewhere and do not forget or else you risk losing access to it forever. your files.

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