Who has ever given their android smartphone to an acquaintance hoping that the latter does not come across confidential images or videos? Even if you are willing to show a number of files, others are made to remain private to protect your personal life. Consequently, for this, you must guarantee the protection of your data. The safest option is to create a private album. That said, it is not always easy to know how to use it. Learn now in this article how to open a private album on an Honor 50. First, learn the purpose of using a confidential album. In a second step we will see the different possibilities to open a private album on your Honor 50.
What is the purpose of using a private album on your Honor 50?
What is the role of a private album on your Honor 50?
You don't share all of your personal information with someone you don't know, and the same spirit of privacy should also apply to things on your Android smartphone, especially your photos and videos. Especially since we are in no way immune to a theft of our personal belongings or an ill-intentioned intrusion which are capable of putting our personal life in danger. And without even imagining the most extreme situations, it may happen that you lend your Honor 50 to a trusted person without being sure that he will not explore the content of your phone.
It is therefore your responsibility to protect the confidentiality of your files. And for this, the best solution will be adding a private album on your Honor 50 which will give you the possibility to place your files, images and videos out of prying eyes. This private album can be secured by various means (secure platform, hidden in your phone, setting up an access code or fingerprint etc). In this way, opening a private album on your Honor 50 can only be done by yourself or by third-party individuals whose access code you have given.
How to create a private album?
So, if you want to hide folders, images but also videos, the best solution is to create a private album on your Honor 50. And for that, 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 smartphone. Indeed, many Android phone brands have understood the interest for users to want to protect their media. This is why, on several versions of Honor 50, they offer the creation of an automatically integrated secure private album.
To choose the option that suits you best for hiding images or videos on your Honor 50, you can read our article on this subject.
What is the method to open a private album on your Honor 50?
To open a private album on your Honor 50, everything will depend on the version of your Android smartphone et how you proceeded to lock the album.
Open a private album on your Honor 50 using private mode
A number of Android phone versions have a " Private mode“. Thanks to it, you can create an album through your Honor 50 to hide your photos and videos. So whenever this private mode is not activated on your phone, the album is hidden. For this mode to work, you will first have to set the private mode and define a password.
To view and open the album you have inserted in private mode on your Honor 50, here is the process:
- Activate private mode.
- But for that two alternatives are offered to you. The first option is to:
- Go to the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Tap on the private mode icon
- Or the second method is to:
- Go to Settings
- Activate the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode password.
- You will now have access to photos and videos placed in your private album.
Open a private album on an Honor 50 using a password
Whether opening a private album created by your smartphone or by an app downloaded to your phone, it will be essential to type the code that you saved when you created it. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a drawing, or a password. To open your private album on your Honor 50, simply go to the album and enter your secret code.
Be careful to memorize the access code well, because to avoid any intrusion on your precious private files, there is usually no other way to recover it. With a bit of luck, you can reset it if you provided an email address or attached it to a specific account. If this is the case, when entering your access code, you may also have the choice of clicking on " Forgotten password". It's up to you to follow the instructions to find it.
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