Have you ever had to lend your mobile to a friend, relative or even a colleague and wish wholeheartedly that the latter does not search the gallery and find secret pictures or videos? While there are a number of files you are prepared to share, others are meant to be kept private to protect your personal life. Therefore, for this reason, you need to ensure the confidentiality of your files. The most obvious option turns out to be to create a private album. However, it is not necessarily easy to know how to use it. We will see today how to open a private album on an Honor 9X. To get started, find out why you should use a confidential album. Secondly, discover the different combinations to open a private folder on an Honor 9X.
Why use a private album on your Honor 9X?
What is a private folder for on its Honor 9X?
You do not share your confidential data with someone you do not know and the same confidentiality reflex should apply to the content on your device, and in particular your photos and videos. Especially since no one is in any way immune to a phone theft or malicious intrusion which can put our personal life at risk. And without going to extreme cases, it sometimes happens that you lend your Honor 9X to someone you have great trust without being sure that they will not walk around the content of your device.
It is therefore up to you to defend the confidentiality of your data. And to achieve this, the best possibility is creating a private album on your Honor 9X which will allow you to transfer your files, photos and videos to a safe place. This private album can be secured by various means (secure platform, by hiding it in your mobile phone, by configuring an access code or a biometric lock, etc.). Consequently, opening a private album on your Honor 9X can only be done by yourself or by third parties whose accessibility to the album you have accepted.
How to create a private album?
In order to hide documents, snapshots or videos, the best solution is to create a private album on your Honor 9X. And for that, there are various ways of doing things.
You can use an app third or you have the possibility to go through the settings menu from your Android. Indeed, the majority of smartphone manufacturers have grasped the obligation for users to want to put their media in a safe place. Therefore, on various versions of Honor 9X, they offer the creation of an immediately integrated secure private album.
Therefore, in order to choose the option that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your Honor 9X, we recommend that you read our article about it.
What technique should you use to open a private album on your Honor 9X?
To open a private album on your Honor 9X, everything will depend on your Android phone version et the method you used to lock the album.
Open a private album on your Honor 9X using a private mode
A number of Android smartphone versions offer a " Private mode". It allows you to create a folder on your Honor 9X to hide your photos and videos. So when this private mode is not activated on your phone, the album is hidden. So that this mode works, you will first have to configure the private mode and determine a secret code.
To view and open the album you have inserted in private mode on your Honor 9X, here is the maneuver:
- Activated private mode.
- There are two ways to achieve this. The first procedure consists of:
- Go to the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Press the private mode icon
- Or the second method is to:
- Go to Settings
- Press the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode password.
- You will then have access to the photos and videos that are in your private album.
Open a private album on an Honor 9X using a password
Whether it is to open a private album created by your smartphone or by an application downloaded to your phone, you will always have to type the code that you saved 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 9X, all you have to do is go to the album and type in your pass.
Be careful to memorize the access code, because to avoid any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there is in most cases no other means of recovering it. Sometimes, you will be able to reset it if you have entered an email address or if you have attached it to a personal account. In this specific case, when entering your password, you can then have the solution to click on " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.
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