To whom has it ever happened to lend his mobile to an individual wishing with all my heart that the latter does not search in the gallery and does not find secret images or videos? Although you are prepared to show some data, others are made to remain confidential to protect your personal life. So for this reason, you must guarantee the confidentiality of your media. The safest option is 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 Magic4 pro. First of all, we will see why use a private album. Then we will see the different possibilities to open a private folder on your Honor Magic4 pro.

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Why use a private album on your Honor Magic4 pro?

What is a private folder for on your Honor Magic4 pro?

You don't give all of your confidential information to someone you don't know, and the same spirit of confidentiality should similarly apply to the content on your phone, especially your photos and videos. Especially since no individuals are in any way immune to the theft of our personal belongings or malicious intrusion that can put our personal lives in danger. And without going to extreme cases, it may happen that you lend your Honor Magic4 pro to a colleague, friend or trusted relative without guarantee that he will not explore the content of your smartphone.

It is therefore up to you to ensure the confidentiality of your files. And to achieve this goal, the best option turns out to be create a private album on your Honor Magic4 pro which will give you the opportunity to put your files, images and videos in a safe place. This private album can be secured by a number of processes (secure platform, hidden in your Android smartphone, adding an access code or fingerprint, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your Honor Magic4 pro can only be done by yourself or by third parties whose accessibility to the album you have approved.

How to create a private album?

So, if you want to hide documents, images or also videos, the best option is to create a private album on your Honor Magic4 pro. And to achieve this, there are various ways to do it.

You can use an app third or you have the possibility to go through the settings menu of your Android. Indeed, the majority of phone brands have heard the need for customers to have to protect their files. Therefore, on various versions of Honor Magic4 pro, they offer the possibility of creating a secure private album directly integrated.

If you want to choose the solution that best suits you for hiding images or videos on your Honor Magic4 pro, we recommend that you read our article on this subject.

How to open a private album on your Honor Magic4 pro?

To open a private album on your Honor Magic4 pro, it all depends on the version that is installed on your Android phone et how you used to lock the album.

Open a confidential album on your Honor Magic4 pro using private mode

Several versions of Android smartphone have a " Private mode“. Thanks to it, you can create a folder from your Honor Magic4 pro to hide your photos and videos. In this way, whenever this private mode is not activated on your mobile phone, the album is hidden. For this mode to work, you must first set up private mode and choose a password.

To discover and open the album you have inserted in private mode on your Honor Magic4 pro, here is the process:

  • Activated private mode.
  • To do this, you have two options. The first way to do this 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
    • Press the button on the Private mode.
  • Enter your private mode access code.
  • You will now have permission to access the photos and videos that are in your private album.

Open a private album on an Honor Magic4 pro using a password

Whether you want to open a private album created by your Android smartphone or by a third-party application, you will always have to type the access code that you indicated at the time of its creation. This access code can be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a pattern, or a password. To open your private album on your Honor Magic4 pro, all you have to do is go to the album and type in your pass.

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

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