Who has never lent their phone to an acquaintance hoping that the latter does not dig in the gallery and find photos or personal videos? While there are a number of files that you are happy to share, others are meant to be kept private to protect your private life. Therefore for this reason, you need to ensure the confidentiality of your files. The safest solution turns out to be to create a private album. However, knowing how to use it is not necessarily easy. Find out now in this article how to open a private album on an Honor Play 8. First of all, we will see why to use a confidential album. Secondly, learn the different possibilities to open a private folder on an Honor Play 8.
Why use a private album on your Honor Play 8?
What is a private folder for on your Honor Play 8?
You don't pass your personal information on to someone you don't know, and the same spirit of privacy should apply to things on your phone as well, including your pictures and videos. Especially since we are in no way immune to a phone theft or a malicious attack which can put our private life at risk. And without imagining the worst, it sometimes happens that you lend your Honor Play 8 to someone you trust without guaranteeing that they will not go browsing the content of your smartphone.
It is therefore your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of your data. And to achieve this goal, the best solution is create a private album on your Honor Play 8 which will offer you the possibility of putting your files, pictures and videos in a place away from the curious. This private album can be secured by several means (secure platform, hidden in your smartphone, by adding a password or fingerprint, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your Honor Play 8 can only be done by yourself or by people close to whom you have approved the accessibility of the album.
How to create a private album?
To hide documents, snapshots but also videos, the best option is therefore undoubtedly the creation of a private album on your Honor Play 8. And to do this, there are a number of solutions.
You can use an app to install via Google Play Store or you have the possibility to go through Parameters option from your android phone. Indeed, many phone brands have grasped the need for customers to want to protect their files. This is why, on some versions of Honor Play 8, they offer the possibility of creating a secure private album immediately integrated.
In order to choose the option that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your Honor Play 8, you can read our article on this subject.
How to open a private album on your Honor Play 8?
To open a private album on your Honor Play 8, everything will depend on your Android phone version et how you used to lock the album.
Open a private album on your Honor Play 8 using private mode
Several versions of Android phones offer a " Private mode". It allows you to create a folder through your Honor Play 8 to hide your images and videos. Consequently, when this private mode is not activated on your mobile, the album is hidden. For this mode to work, you will first have to set the private mode and define an access code.
To view and open the album you have inserted in private mode on your Honor Play 8, here is the maneuver:
- Activate private mode.
- There are two possibilities for this. The first way to do this is to:
- Go to the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Press the private mode icon
- Or the second solution is to:
- Open them Settings
- Activate the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode access code.
- You will then have the authorization to access the images and videos placed in your private album.
Open a private album on an Honor Play 8 using a secret code
Whether it is to open a private album created by your device or by a third-party application, you must inform the 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 Play 8, all you have to do is go to the album and enter your pass.
Be careful to remember the code, since to prevent any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there is generally no other way to recover 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 case, when entering your access code, you will also find the possibility of pressing " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.
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