Have you ever had to lend your phone to an individual and wish wholeheartedly that the latter does not fall on pictures or personal videos? While you may be willing to share a certain amount of data, there is still some data that is kept private in order to protect your personal life. And for that, you need to be vigilant about protecting your data. The most accessible solution remains the creation of a private album. However, it is not always easy to understand how to use it. We will now see in this article how to open a private album on an Honor. First, find out what to use a private album for. Secondly, discover the techniques for opening a private album on your Honor.
Why use a private album on an Honor?
What is a private album on an Honor for?
You do not communicate all of your confidential information to just any individual and the same confidentiality reflex should equally apply to the data located on your Android, and particularly your images and videos. Especially since no individuals are ever safe from the theft of our personal belongings or from a malicious attack which are likely to put our personal life in danger. And without going to extreme cases, it may happen that you lend your Honor to an individual you have great confidence in without being assured that they will not be exploring the contents of your smartphone.
It is therefore your responsibility to ensure the confidentiality of your files. And for that, the best option turns out to be creating a private album on your Honor 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 different means (secure platform, by hiding it in your mobile phone, by adding a password or a biometric lock, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your Honor can only be done by yourself or by third parties to which you have given access.
How to create a private album?
If you want to hide files, snapshots but also videos, the best option is undoubtedly the creation of a private album on your Honor. And to achieve this, there are several ways to do it.
You can use an app to install on your phone or you just have to go through Parameters option from your android phone. Indeed, many smartphone manufacturers have grasped the usefulness for customers of having to secure their data. Therefore, on some versions of Honor, they offer the option to create an automatically integrated secure private album.
If you want to choose the best option for you to hide pictures or videos on your Honor, you can read our article about it.
How to open a private album on your Honor?
To open a private album on your Honor, everything will depend on the version that is installed on your Android mobile et the method you used to lock the album.
Open a private album on your Honor using private mode
A number of Android mobile versions feature a " Private mode". With it, you can create an album through your Honor to hide your images and videos. In this way, whenever this private mode is not running on your mobile, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first need to configure the private mode and determine a password.
To view and open the album you have registered in private mode on your Honor, here is the procedure:
- Activate private mode.
- There are two ways to do this. The first way is to:
- Go to the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Tap on the private mode icon
- Or the second way is to:
- Go to Settings
- Activate the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your secret code for private mode.
- You will then have the authorization to access the images and videos that are in your private album.
Open a private album on an Honor using a secret code
Whether you want to open a private album created by your Android smartphone or by a third-party application, you will inevitably have to type the access code that you indicated when creating it. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a drawing, or a password. To open your private album on your Honor, you simply have to go to the album and type your right pass.
Be careful to save the code in your memory, since to avoid any intrusion on your precious private files, there is most of the time no other means of recovering it. In certain situations, you have the possibility of reinitializing it if you have indicated an email address or if you have linked it to a specific account. In this specific case, when entering your password, you will then be able to press " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to find it.
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