Who has never given his smartphone to a friend, a relative or a colleague, wishing wholeheartedly that the latter does not fall on photos or confidential videos? While you are happy to show some data, others are meant to be kept confidential in order to protect your private life. Therefore, for this, you must be vigilant about the confidentiality of your data. The easiest solution turns out to be creating 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 a Huawei Nova 5T. To begin with, we'll see why to use a private album. Secondly, we will see the techniques for opening a private album on your Huawei Nova 5T.
What is the purpose of using a private album on a Huawei Nova 5T?
What is a private album on a Huawei Nova 5T for?
You do not communicate all of your confidential data to someone you do not know and the same spirit of confidentiality should also apply to the data on your phone, and in particular your photos and videos. Especially since we are in no way immune to a phone theft or a malicious attack that could put our private life at risk. And without going to extreme cases, it may happen that you lend your Huawei Nova 5T to a person in whom you have great trust without being sure that they will not wander the content of your device.
Therefore, it is your responsibility to ensure the confidentiality of your data. And for that, the best option is undoubtedly adding a private album on your Huawei Nova 5T which will give you the opportunity to put your documents, photos and videos in a place hidden from prying eyes. This private album can be secured by several processes (secure platform, by hiding it in your Android smartphone, by adding an access code or a biometric lock, etc.). Thus, opening a private album on your Huawei Nova 5T can only be done by yourself or by third parties whose accessibility to the album you have accepted.
How to create a private album?
If you want to hide files, snapshots but also videos, the best solution will therefore be to create a private album on your Huawei Nova 5T. And for that, there are various ways of doing things.
You can use an app third or it is possible to go through the settings menu from your Android smartphone. Indeed, the majority of telephone manufacturers have grasped the interest in customers having to protect their media. This is why, on several versions of Huawei Nova 5T, they offer the creation of a secure private album immediately integrated.
If you want to find the best solution for you to hide pictures or videos on your Huawei Nova 5T, see our article on this subject.
What is the method to open a private album on your Huawei Nova 5T?
To open a private album on your Huawei Nova 5T, everything will depend on the version of your Android smartphone et how you proceeded to lock the album.
Open a confidential album on your Huawei Nova 5T using private mode
Some versions of Android smartphones have a " Private mode". It allows you to create an album through your Huawei Nova 5T to hide your photos and videos. So when this private mode is not activated on your Android smartphone, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first have to configure the private mode and determine a secret code.
To discover and open the album that you have inserted in private mode on your Huawei Nova 5T, here is the maneuver:
- Activate private mode.
- There are two ways to do this. The first way is to:
- Go to the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Press the private mode icon
- Or the second way is to:
- Go to Settings
- Activate the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode password.
- You will now have access to the photos and videos that are in your private album.
Open a private album on a Huawei Nova 5T using a secret code
Whether it is to open a private album created by your Android smartphone or by a third-party application, you will inevitably have to inform the access 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 Huawei Nova 5T, 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 prevent any intrusion on your precious confidential media, there is generally no other means of recovering it. In some cases, you have the option of resetting it if you have specified an e-mail address or if you have linked it to a personal account. In this specific case, when entering your password, you may also have the option of pressing " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.
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