Who has never given someone their smartphone and wished wholeheartedly that they wouldn't go through the gallery and find secret photos or videos? While you may be willing to share some files, others are meant to be kept private to protect your privacy. Therefore, to do this, you must ensure the protection of your documents. The most accessible solution turns out to be the creation of a private album. However, it is not always easy to understand how to use it. We will now see in this article how to open a private album on an Alcatel 1V. First, find out why to use a private album. Then we will see the various procedures to open a private album on your Alcatel 1V.
Why use a private album on an Alcatel 1V?
What is the use of a private album on an Alcatel 1V?
You do not deliver all of your personal information to just any individual and the same confidentiality reflex should also apply to the data on your phone, and in particular your photos and videos. Especially that no individuals are ever safe from the theft of our personal belongings or from a malicious attack which are able to put our privacy at risk. And without even seeing the worst, it may happen that you lend your Alcatel 1V to a colleague, a friend or a relative in whom you have great confidence without being assured that he will not go wandering around on the contents of your mobile.
It is therefore your responsibility to protect the confidentiality of your information. And to achieve this, the best option remains create a private album on your Alcatel 1V which will give you the possibility to transfer your files, photos and videos to a safe place. This private album can be secured by different means (secure platform, hidden in your mobile phone, by adding an access code or also by fingerprint etc.). Like this, opening a private album on your Alcatel 1V can only be done by yourself or by close people whose access code you have granted.
How to create a private album?
In order to hide folders, photos but also videos, the best option is therefore to create a private album on your Alcatel 1V. And for that, there are a number of solutions.
You can use an app to install on your phone or it is possible to go through the settings from your android phone. Indeed, many brands of Android phone have understood the need for customers to want to secure their files. In this way, on various versions of Alcatel 1V, they offer the creation of a directly integrated secure private album.
So, if you want to choose the option that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your Alcatel 1V, you can read our article on this subject.
What technique should you use to open a private album on your Alcatel 1V?
To open a private album on your Alcatel 1V, everything will depend on the version that is installed on your Android device et the method you used to lock the album.
Open a confidential album on your Alcatel 1V using private mode
A number of Android mobile versions have a " Private mode". Thanks to it, you can create an album through your Alcatel 1V to hide your photos and videos. Like this whenever this private mode is not activated on your Android, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first have to configure the private mode and choose an access code.
To view and open the album you have registered in private mode on your Alcatel 1V, here is the procedure:
- Activate private mode.
- There are two ways to do this. The first procedure consists of:
- Open the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Click on private mode icon
- Or the second solution is to:
- Go to Settings
- Activate the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode password.
- You will now have access to the photos and videos put in your private album.
Open a private album on an Alcatel 1V using a password
Whether it is to open a private album created by your phone or by a third-party app, you must inform the code that you gave when you created it. This access code can be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a drawing, or a password. To open your private album on your Alcatel 1V, all you have to do is go to the album and enter your pass.
Be careful to save the secret code in your memory, since to prevent any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there are generally no other ways to recover it. In some cases, you can reset it if you entered an email address or linked it to a particular account. In this situation, when entering your password, you can also have the solution to press " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.
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