Have you ever loaned your android smartphone to a friend, relative or colleague hoping that the latter does not come across secret images or videos? Even if you are ready to exchange a certain amount of data, others are made to remain private in order to protect your personal life. To do this, you must be careful to protect your media. The easiest option is to create a private album. However, it is not always easy to know how to use it. learn today how to open a private album on a HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro. First, we will see the reasons for using a confidential album. Then we will see the various methods to open a private album on your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro.

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Why use a private album on your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro?

What is the use of a private album on your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro?

You don't share all of your confidential data with someone you don't know, and the same spirit of privacy should similarly apply to things on your smartphone, especially your images and videos. Especially since no one is ever safe from a theft of our personal belongings or a malicious attack that is able to put our personal life in danger. And without imagining the worst, it may happen that you lend your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro to an individual in whom you have great confidence without being sure that he will not wander on the content of your device.

Therefore, it is your responsibility to ensure the confidentiality of your information. And to do this, the best solution turns out to be creating a private album on your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro which will offer you the possibility of transferring your documents, images and videos to a place hidden from prying eyes. This private album can be secured through several processes (secure platform, hidden in your phone, setting up a password or a biometric lock etc). Thus, opening a private album on your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro can only be done by yourself or by people close to whom you have granted access to the album.

How to create a private album?

In order to hide files, images or even videos, the best solution is therefore to create a private album on your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro. And to achieve this, there are several solutions.

You can use an app to install on your phone or you can go through Parameters option of your Android smartphone. Indeed, the majority of smartphone manufacturers have understood the interest for customers of having to protect their media. Therefore, on some versions of HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro, they offer the possibility of creating a secure private album immediately integrated.

So, if you want to choose the solution that suits you best for hiding images or videos on your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro, we recommend that you read our article on this subject.

How to open a private album on your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro?

To open a private album on your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro, everything will depend on the version that is installed on your Android mobile et how you proceeded to lock the album.

Open a private album on your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro using private mode

Some versions of Android phones have a " Private mode“. It allows you to create an album through your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro to hide your images and videos. So whenever this private mode is not activated on your mobile phone, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first need to set the private mode and choose a password.

To discover and open the album you have registered in private mode on your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro, here is the maneuver:

  • Activate private mode.
  • To do this two methods exist. The first way is to:
    • Go to the notifications menu,
    • Unroll it notifications menu
    • Press the private mode icon 
  • Or the second method is to:
    • Go to Settings
    • Activate the button on the Private mode.
  • Enter your private mode password.
  • You will now have access to the images and videos put in your private album.

Open a private album on a HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro from a password

Whether you want to open a private album created by your smartphone or by an app downloaded to your phone, you will have to fill in the code that you specified when you created it. This access code can be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a drawing, or a password. To open your private album on your HUAWEI Mate 50 Pro, all you have to do is go to the album and enter your secret code.

Be careful to save the access code in your memory, since to thwart any intrusion on your precious private files, there is in most cases no other means of recovering it. In some cases, you will be able to reset it if you have indicated an email address or you have attached it to a personal account. In this case, when entering your access code, you will then have the option of pressing " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.

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