It has certainly happened to you to lend your smartphone to an acquaintance and wish wholeheartedly that the latter does not fall on personal images or videos? While you may be willing to exchange a few 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 most common option is to create a private album. However, it is not always easy to understand how to use it. We will now find out in this article how to open a private album on an Honor View 10. To get started, learn the reasons for using a private album. Secondly, discover the techniques to open a private folder on your Honor View 10.

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Why use a private album on an Honor View 10?

What is the use of a private folder on an Honor View 10?

You do not give your confidential information to just anyone and the same spirit of confidentiality should in a similar way apply to the content that is on your Android, and in particular your images and videos. Especially since none of us is in any way safe from the theft of our personal belongings or from a malicious attack which are capable of putting our privacy at risk. And without even seeing the worst, it may happen that you lend your Honor View 10 to someone you have great trust without guaranteeing that they will not go and take a look at the content of your mobile.

It is therefore your responsibility to defend the confidentiality of your information. And to achieve this, the best possibility turns out to be create a private album on your Honor View 10 which will give you the possibility to place your documents, images and videos in a safe place. This private album can be secured by various means (secure platform, by hiding it in your Android smartphone, by configuring an access code or a biometric lock, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your Honor View 10 can only be done by yourself or by third parties to whom you have given access to the album.

How to create a private album?

In order to hide documents, images or also videos, the best solution will therefore be to create a private album on your Honor View 10. There are various ways to do this.

You can use an app third or it is possible to go through the settings menu from your Android smartphone. Indeed, many phone brands have understood the requirement for users to want to secure their files. As a result, on various versions of Honor View 10, they offer the creation of a directly integrated secure private album.

If you want to choose the option that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your Honor View 10, you can read our article on this subject.

What technique should you use to open a private album on your Honor View 10?

To open a private album on your Honor View 10, everything depends on the version of your Android smartphone et how you used to lock the album.

Open a confidential album on your Honor View 10 using private mode

Some versions of Android smartphones have a " Private mode". Thanks to it, you can create a folder through your Honor View 10 to hide your images and videos. So when this private mode is not activated on your Android, the album is hidden. For this mode to work, you must first set up private mode and determine a password.

To view and open the album you saved in private mode on your Honor View 10, here is the procedure:

  • Activated private mode.
  • There are two ways to achieve this. The first way is to:
    • Go to the notifications menu,
    • Unroll it notifications menu
    • Click on private mode icon 
  • Or the second solution is to:
    • Meet in the Settings
    • Press the button on the Private mode.
  • Enter your private mode password.
  • You will now have permission to access the images and videos that are in your private album.

Open a private album on an Honor View 10 using a secret code

Whether it is to open a private album created by your device or by an application downloaded to your phone, you will necessarily be asked to provide information the access code that you administered at the time of its creation. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a pattern, or a password. To open your private album on your Honor View 10, all you have to do is go to the album and enter your pass.

Be careful to save the access code in your memory, because to thwart any intrusion on your precious confidential media, there is generally no other means of recovering it. In some cases, you can reset it if you have entered an e-mail address or if you have linked it to a personal account. In this situation, when entering your code, you may also have the choice to click on " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.

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