Who has ever lent their smartphone to an acquaintance hoping that the latter does not search through the gallery and find secret photos or videos? Although you are happy to show some files, others are made to remain confidential in order to protect your private life. So for this reason, you must ensure the confidentiality of your data. The safest solution is to create a private album. However, it is not necessarily easy to understand how to use it. We will see today how to open a private album on a Blackview A100. First, we will discover why to use a confidential album. Second, learn the various processes to open a private folder on a Blackview A100.

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Why use a private album on your Blackview A100?

What is the use of a private folder on your Blackview A100?

You don't share all of your confidential information with someone you don't know, and the same spirit of privacy should also apply to the content on your Android, especially your photos and videos. Especially since none of us is in any way immune to a phone theft or a malicious attack that is likely to put our intimate lives in danger. And without even imagining the most extreme situations, it sometimes happens that you lend your Blackview A100 to a trusted person without assurance that he will not take a look at the contents of your device.

It is therefore your responsibility to defend the confidentiality of your information. And to achieve this goal, the best option will be create a private album on your Blackview A100 which will offer you the possibility of placing your documents, photos and videos in a safe place. This private album can be secured by different means (secure platform, hidden in your mobile phone, by configuring an access code or even a biometric lock, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your Blackview A100 can only be done by yourself or by third parties to whom you have granted access.

How to create a private album?

If you want to hide folders, photos but also videos, the best solution is therefore to create a private album on your Blackview A100. And to achieve this, there are various ways to do it.

You can use an app to install via Google Play Store or it is possible to go through Parameters option of your Android. Indeed, the majority of Android phone manufacturers have understood the need for customers to want to protect their files. Therefore, on several versions of Blackview A100, they offer the possibility of creating an automatically integrated secure private album.

If you want to find the solution that best suits you for hiding images or videos on your Blackview A100, we recommend that you read our article on this subject.

What is the method to open a private album on your Blackview A100?

To open a private album on your Blackview A100, everything will depend on the version that is installed on your Android smartphone et how you went about locking the album.

Open a confidential album on your Blackview A100 using a private mode

Several versions of Android mobile have a " Private mode“. It offers you the possibility of creating a folder from your Blackview A100 to hide your photos and videos. In this way, when this private mode is not activated on your mobile, the album is hidden. For this mode to work, you will first need to set the private mode and define an access code.

To view and open the album you have inserted in private mode on your Blackview A100, here is the maneuver:

  • Activate private mode.
  • There are two ways to do this. The first method consists of:
    • Go to the notifications menu,
    • Unroll it notifications menu
    • Tap on the private mode icon 
  • Or the second procedure is to:
    • Open them Settings
    • Activate the button on the Private mode.
  • Enter your private mode password.
  • You will now have access to the photos and videos that are in your private album.

Open a private album on a Blackview A100 using a secret code

Whether to open a private album created by your phone or by a third-party app, you will always need to fill in the access code that you administered at the time of its creation. This access code can be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a drawing, or a password. To open your private album on your Blackview A100, all you have to do is go to the album, and enter your right password.

Be careful to memorize the code well, because to prevent any intrusion on your precious private files, there is usually no other way to recover it. In some cases, you will be able to reset it if you have provided an email address or linked it to a specific account. In this case, when entering your secret code, you can then have the solution of pressing " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to find it.

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