Have you ever had to lend your phone to an acquaintance and wish wholeheartedly that the latter does not search the gallery and find personal images or videos? While there are a number of files you may be willing to share, others are meant to be kept private to protect your privacy. Therefore, to do this, you need to pay attention to the protection of your data. The most common solution turns out to be to create a private album. However, knowing how to use it is not always easy. We will find out today how to open a private album on an Honor 9. First, we'll find out why to use a private album. Secondly, we will see the various procedures to open a private folder on your Honor 9.
Why should you use a private album on your Honor 9?
What is the role of a private folder on your Honor 9?
You don't share all of your confidential information with someone you don't know, and the same spirit of privacy should equally apply to things on your device, especially your photos and videos. Especially since no individuals are ever safe from the theft of our personal belongings or malicious intrusion which can put our private life at risk. And without even imagining the most extreme situations, it may happen that you lend your Honor 9 to a trusted individual without the assurance that they are not going to explore the contents of your Android smartphone.
It is therefore up to you to defend the confidentiality of your data. And to achieve this goal, the best possibility is undoubtedly adding a private album on your Honor 9 which will give you the opportunity to put your documents, images and videos in a safe place. This private album can be secured by a certain number of processes (secure platform, by hiding it in your mobile phone, by configuring an access code or also by a biometric lock, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your Honor 9 can only be done by yourself or by close people to whom you have approved access.
How to create a private album?
To be able to hide documents, images or even videos, the best solution is without a doubt to create a private album on your Honor 9. There are a number of ways to do this.
You can use an app To download or it is possible to go through the settings menu from your Android smartphone. Indeed, the majority of phone manufacturers have understood the interest for customers to want to protect their data. Therefore, on several versions of Honor 9, they offer the creation of a secure private album immediately integrated.
If you want to choose the solution that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your Honor 9, you can read our article on this subject.
What is the method to open a private album on your Honor 9?
To open a private album on your Honor 9, everything will depend on the version that is installed on your Android smartphone et how you proceeded to lock the album.
Open a confidential album on your Honor 9 using private mode
Some versions of Android smartphones offer a " Private mode". It allows you to create a folder through your Honor 9 to hide your photos and videos. So when this private mode is not activated on your device, the album is hidden. So that this mode works, you will have to first configure the private mode and choose a password.
To view and open the album you have registered in private mode on your Honor 9, here is the maneuver:
- Activated private mode.
- To achieve this two methods are available to you. The first way to do this is to:
- Open the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Click on 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 the authorization to access the photos and videos that are in your private album.
Open a private album on an Honor 9 with the help of a password
Whether it is to open a private album created by your device or by an app downloaded to your phone, you will need to provide information the access code that you saved when you created it. This access code can be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a pattern, or a password. To open your private album on your Honor 9, all you have to do is go to the album and enter your right pass.
Be careful to save the code in your memory, since to avoid any intrusion on your precious confidential media, there is most of the time no other way to retrieve it. Sometimes, you can reset it if you have entered an email address or if you have linked it to a personal account. In this specific case, when entering your secret code, you will then find the choice to click on " Forgotten password". It's up to you to follow the directions to find it.
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