Who has never given their smartphone to a friend, relative or even a colleague hoping that the latter does not come across pictures or personal videos? Although you are willing to share some data, others are made to remain private to protect your privacy. To do this, you must ensure the protection of your data. The easiest solution is to create a private album. However, it is not always easy to know how to use it. Discover today how to open a private album on an Honor X8. First of all, we will find out why use a private album. Secondly we will see the different combinations to open a private folder on your Honor X8.
What is the purpose of using a private album on your Honor X8?
What is the use of a private folder on your Honor X8?
You don't give all of your confidential information to anyone and the same spirit of confidentiality should similarly apply to the data on your smartphone, including your photos and videos. Especially since we are in no way immune to phone theft or malicious intrusion that are capable of putting our privacy at risk. And without even seeing the worst, it may happen that you lend your Honor X8 to a person in whom you place great trust without being sure that he will not go for a walk on the content of your mobile.
It is therefore up to you to control the confidentiality of your files. And to achieve this objective, the best solution remains creating a private album on your Honor X8 which will offer you the possibility of placing your files, photos and videos away from prying eyes. 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.). Thus, opening a private album on your Honor X8 can only be done by yourself or by close people whose access you have approved.
How to create a private album?
In order to hide folders, photos but also videos, the best possibility will therefore be to create a private album on your Honor X8. And to do this, there are a number of ways to do it.
You can use an app to install on your phone or you can go through the settings of your Android. Indeed, many Android phone manufacturers have understood the need for customers to want to put their files in a safe place. In this way, on some versions of Honor X8, they offer the possibility of creating an immediately integrated secure private album.
If you want to find the solution that suits you best for hiding images or videos on your Honor X8, you can read our article about it.
How to open a private album on your Honor X8?
To open a private album on your Honor X8, everything will depend on the version that is installed on your Android phone et how you went about locking the album.
Open a confidential album on your Honor X8 using private mode
Several versions of Android mobile have a " Private mode“. It allows you to create a folder through your Honor X8 to hide your photos and videos. In this way whenever this private mode is not turned on on your mobile phone, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first have to configure the private mode and choose a secret code.
To view and open the album you have inserted in private mode on your Honor X8, here is the maneuver:
- Activate private mode.
- To achieve this, two ways of doing things are available to you. The first procedure consists of:
- Go to the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Tap on the private mode icon
- Or the second solution is to:
- Open them Settings
- Activate the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode code.
- You will now have access to photos and videos placed in your private album.
Open a private album on an Honor X8 using a secret code
Whether opening a private album created by your device or by a third-party app, it will be essential to fill in 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 X8, all you have to do is go to the album, and enter your secret code.
Be careful to remember the access code, because to thwart any intrusion on your precious confidential media, there is in most cases no other means of recovering it. In some cases, you will be able to reset it if you have specified an e-mail address or linked it to a particular account. In this case, when entering your password, 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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