If your privacy and your internet security are important to you, you certainly want it to be as well on your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite. Indeed, we always use our phones instead of our laptops and important data is stored there such as invoices, identity documents, identifiers and bank pins or different accounts ...

Making your smartphone a real safe can therefore be a logical and relevant choice. In this context, we will have to understand how to encrypt and decrypt data from your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite? In this context, we will help you by first explaining the value of these security measures, then all the measures you can implement to secure your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite files and how to do it. to access them when locked.

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Why does it make sense to encrypt data on a XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite?

We therefore start this article by briefly teaching you what interest you will have in encrypting the files of your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite. We will first of all come back to the term reveal for those of you who do not know 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 unreadable without the decryption code. You can still much more easily use passwords, visual patterns, fingerprint, facial recognition , to prevent a third party from reaching your files.

Either way and the system you decide 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 files. On the other hand, it will also be more complicated for a person who steals your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite or who has access to it to get hold of your data.

To put it simply, each encryption method of XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite corresponds to different expectations, if ever you do not have very important things on your smartphone it is not worthwhile to embark on encryption of all your data as if you work for the NSA. It is therefore up to you to define subjectively, according to your expectations and your desires, the appropriate level.

How to encrypt the data of a XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite?

We therefore start by revealing the different solutions available to you. to encrypt your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite files . We will reveal them to you in order from the simplest to the most complex. You can also secure your internet browsing by modifying the IP address of your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite.

Encrypt your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite using facial recognition

First of the possibilities that exist, you can, use facial recognition to encrypt the data on your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite. This is the technique that we advise you the least, it certainly has advantages, such as being very quick to access your files, only work with you. However, there is an important problem, the majority of facial recognition software is fooled by a simple photo ...

However, if you are not afraid that someone will access your files and you want to use it just to put a simple security on your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite, you can configure it in the menu " Security " from your smartphone.

Encrypt your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite using a password, a visual diagram or a fingerprint

We decided to collect these different encryption possibilities for XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite in the same section because they all provide a close and very satisfactory level of security. These three alternatives differ, one will simply be a 4-digit code like the one on your SIM card that your mobile phone will ask you 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 hack. », And finally, your fingerprint which is also not easy to falsify ...

These three options will have the same function, preventing stranger from accessing your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite. However, with the diagram and the PIN code you can lend your smartphone to a loved one and give them the possibility of using it even if you are not with them, something impossible with the fingerprint. To configure them you will have to go to the menu "Screen unlock" from your smartphone.

Encrypt all data on your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite using encryption

Last option, and, you will have recorded it, the one which allows to ensure a maximum of security, it is encrypt your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite using a data encryption system , in this situation you will have all the data on your smartphone which will be encrypted, this manipulation takes time, depending on the volume of data stored on your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite, this may require several hours. We therefore recommend this alternative for people for whom the security of their files is essential. To encrypt them, we recommend that you use the application SSE , who will have the opportunity to accompany you and take care of the entire procedure:

  • Download and install the application on your XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite
  • Open SSE
  • Press "File / Dir Encryptor"
  • Select the folder or file you want to encrypt
  • Choose a password and validate the procedure
  • You will now be able to access it only by using the application and the function "Decrypt Fil" or Decrypt Dir "

How to decrypt the data of its XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite?

Concerning data decryption of a XIAOMI Mi A2 Lite , you will have assimilated it, each encryption solution has its advantages and disadvantages and its means of being decrypted. However, for each of them you will create an unlocking or file access technique and this last one that you absolutely must write down on a piece of paper and not forget or else you risk losing access to it forever. your files.

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