Who has never lent their android smartphone to someone in the hope that the latter does not come across secret photos or videos? While you may be willing to share a few files, others are meant to be kept private in order to protect your privacy. Consequently, for this reason, you must guarantee the confidentiality of your documents. The easiest solution is to create a private album. However, knowing how to use it is not always easy. We will now find out in this article how to open a private album on an Honor 8X. First of all, find out what to use a private album for. Then discover the different combinations to open a private folder on your Honor 8X.
Why use a private album on an Honor 8X?
What is the role of a private folder on an Honor 8X?
You do not communicate all of your confidential information to an individual you do not know and the same spirit of confidentiality should in a similar way apply to the content that is on your smartphone, and especially your images and videos. Especially since none of us is in any way immune to the theft of our personal belongings or malicious intrusion which could put our privacy at risk. And without imagining the worst, it may happen that you lend your Honor 8X to someone you trust a lot without being assured that they will not go and take a look at the contents of your device.
It is therefore your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of your files. And to achieve this goal, the best solution is undoubtedly creating a private album on your Honor 8X which will allow you to keep your documents, photos and videos in a safe place. This private album can be secured by a number of means (secure platform, hidden in your device, by configuring a password or also by fingerprint etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your Honor 8X can only be done by yourself or by third parties whose accessibility of the album you have approved.
How to create a private album?
So, if you want to hide files, photos but also videos, the best option will be to create a private album on your Honor 8X. And to achieve this, there are various ways of doing things.
You can use an app to install on your phone or it is possible to go through the settings menu from your Android smartphone. Indeed, many smartphone manufacturers have understood the obligation for customers to want to protect their files. Therefore, on some versions of Honor 8X, they offer the creation of a directly integrated secure private album.
If you want to find the option that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your Honor 8X, you can read our article on this subject.
How to open a private album on your Honor 8X?
To open a private album on your Honor 8X, everything will depend on the version that is installed on your Android smartphone et the method you used to lock the album.
Open a private album on your Honor 8X using private mode
Several versions of Android smartphone have a " Private mode". It offers you the possibility to create a folder on your Honor 8X to hide your images and videos. So whenever this private mode is not activated on your device, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first have to configure the private mode and choose a password.
To view and open the album you have registered in private mode on your Honor 8X, here is the procedure:
- Activate private mode.
- But for this two methods are available to you. The first way is to:
- Go to the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Press the private mode icon
- Or the second option is to:
- Open them Settings
- Activate the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode password.
- You will now have the authorization to access the images and videos put in your private album.
Open a private album on an Honor 8X with the help of a secret code
Whether opening a private album created by your smartphone or by an application downloaded to your phone, you will inevitably have to type the code that you specified when you created it. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a pattern, or a password. To open your private album on your Honor 8X, all you have to do is go to the album and type in your pass.
Be careful to save the access code in your memory, since to thwart any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there is generally no other way to recover it. In certain situations, you will be able to reset it if you have entered an e-mail address or if you have linked it to a particular account. In this situation, when entering your secret code, you will then find the solution to click on " Forgotten password". It's up to you to follow the instructions to find it.
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