It has inevitably happened to you to give your android smartphone to a friend, a relative or a colleague while wishing wholeheartedly that the latter does not search the gallery and find confidential photos or videos? While you are ready to show some files, others are meant to be kept private in order to protect your personal life. Therefore, to do this, you need to ensure the confidentiality of your files. The safest solution happens to be the creation of a private album. However, it is not always easy to understand how to use it. We will see today how to open a private album on an Asus ZenFone Max Shot. First, find out what to use a private album for. In a second step we will see the techniques to open a private album on your Asus ZenFone Max Shot.
Why should you use a private album on your Asus ZenFone Max Shot?
What is the use of a private album on your Asus ZenFone Max Shot?
You do not give all of your confidential information to an individual you do not know and the same spirit of confidentiality should also apply to the things on your smartphone, and in particular your images and videos. Especially since none of us are ever safe from a phone theft or malicious intrusion that can put our personal lives in danger. And without imagining the worst, it sometimes happens that you lend your Asus ZenFone Max Shot to someone you trust without the assurance that they will not go and take a look at the contents of your smartphone.
Therefore, it is your responsibility to ensure the confidentiality of your files. And to achieve this, the best possibility will be adding a private album on your Asus ZenFone Max Shot which will give you the possibility to put your documents, photos and videos in a place hidden from prying eyes. This private album can be secured by different means (secure platform, by hiding it in your smartphone, by configuring an access code or also by fingerprint etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your Asus ZenFone Max Shot can only be done by yourself or by third parties whose album accessibility you have approved.
How to create a private album?
In order to hide documents, photos or also videos, the best option is therefore to create a private album on your Asus ZenFone Max Shot. And to achieve this, there are various ways of doing it.
You can use an app to install via Google Play Store or you just have to go through the settings from your android device. Indeed, many smartphone brands have understood the need for users to want to protect their data. Therefore, on some versions of Asus ZenFone Max Shot, they offer the possibility to create a secure private album immediately integrated.
To find the option that best suits you for hiding pictures or videos on your Asus ZenFone Max Shot, we recommend that you read our article about it.
How to open a private album on your Asus ZenFone Max Shot?
To open a private album on your Asus ZenFone Max Shot, everything depends on the version that is installed on your Android phone et how you proceeded to lock the album.
Open a confidential album on your Asus ZenFone Max Shot using private mode
Several versions of Android smartphones have a " Private mode". Thanks to it, you can create an album from your Asus ZenFone Max Shot to hide your images and videos. So when this private mode is not activated on your phone, the album is hidden. For this mode to work, you will first have to set up private mode and determine an access code.
To discover and open the album you saved in private mode on your Asus ZenFone Max Shot, here is the process:
- Activated private mode.
- But there are two ways of doing this. The first way is to:
- Go to the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Press the private mode icon
- Or the second method is to:
- Open them Settings
- Press the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your secret code for private mode.
- You will now have access to the images and videos that are in your private album.
Open a private album on an Asus ZenFone Max Shot using a password
Whether you want to open a private album created by your smartphone or by a third-party application, you will have to type the access 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 Asus ZenFone Max Shot, all you have to do is go to the album and enter your secret code.
Be careful to save the code in your memory, because to thwart any intrusion on your precious confidential media, there are often no other means of recovering it. Sometimes you might be able to reset it in case you've filled in an email address or linked it to a particular account. In this situation, when entering your password, you will also have the option of pressing " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.
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