It has inevitably happened to you to give your mobile to an individual hoping that it does not fall on personal images or videos? While you are prepared to show a number of files, others are meant to be kept private to protect your privacy. This is why you need to ensure the confidentiality of your files. The easiest option is to create a private album. However, it is not always easy to know how to use it. We will now find out in this article how to open a private album on an Honor Play 3. To start, we will find out why you should use a confidential album. Secondly, discover the various procedures to open a private folder on your Honor Play 3.
Why use a private album on your Honor Play 3?
What is the role of a private folder on its Honor Play 3?
You don't hand over your confidential information to just anyone, and the same privacy reflex should also apply to things on your phone, including your pictures and videos. Especially since no one is ever safe from the theft of our personal belongings or from a malicious attack which can put our privacy at risk. And without going to extreme cases, it may happen that you lend your Honor Play 3 to an individual in whom you have great confidence without being assured that he will not go and take a look at the content of your mobile.
It is therefore your responsibility to protect the confidentiality of your data. And for that, the best possibility will be creating a private album on your Honor Play 3 which will give you the possibility to place your files, images and videos in a place hidden from prying eyes. This private album can be secured by a certain number of processes (secure platform, hidden in your Android smartphone, by configuring a password or a biometric lock, etc.). Like this, opening a private album on your Honor Play 3 can only be done by yourself or by third parties to whom you have granted accessibility to the album.
How to create a private album?
If you want to hide folders, images or videos, the best trick will be to create a private album on your Honor Play 3. And there are several ways to do this.
You can use an app To download or it is possible to go through the settings from your android phone. Indeed, many brands of Android phone have understood the usefulness for customers to have to protect their data. This is why, on several versions of Honor Play 3, they offer the creation of an automatically integrated secure private album.
In order to find the solution that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your Honor Play 3, see our article on this subject.
How to open a private album on your Honor Play 3?
To open a private album on your Honor Play 3, everything depends on the version that is installed on your Android device et how you used to lock the album.
Open a private album on your Honor Play 3 using private mode
A number of Android smartphone versions have a " Private mode". With it, you can create a folder through your Honor Play 3 to hide your images and videos. So when this private mode is not running on your Android, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first have to configure private mode and set up a secret code.
To view and open the album you have registered in private mode on your Honor Play 3, here is the maneuver:
- Activated 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
- Press the button on the Private mode.
- Write your secret code for private mode.
- You will now have permission to access the images and videos that are in your private album.
Open a private album on an Honor Play 3 using a password
Whether it is to open a private album created by your smartphone or by an app downloaded to your phone, you must type the access code that you gave 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 Play 3, all you have to do is go to the album, and type your pass.
Be careful to memorize the code, since to prevent any intrusion on your precious confidential data, in most cases there are no other ways to retrieve it. In some cases, you will be able to reset it if you have entered an email address or if you have linked it to a specific account. In this situation, when entering your code, you will also have the option of pressing " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.
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