It has certainly happened to you to lend your smartphone to a friend, a relative or a colleague while wishing wholeheartedly that it does not fall on confidential photos or videos? Even if you are happy to share a number of files, others are made to be kept private in order to protect your private life. Therefore, to do this, you need to ensure the confidentiality of your media. The easiest option turns out to be to create a private album. However, it is not necessarily easy to know how to use it. Learn today how to open a private album on a Huawei P8. First, we'll find out why to use a private album. Then we will see the various methods to open a private folder on your Huawei P8.

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For what reasons to use a private album on your Huawei P8?

What is a private folder for on your Huawei P8?

You do not share all of your personal data with someone you do not know and the same confidentiality reflex should also apply to the data on your smartphone, and in particular your photos and videos. Especially since no one is ever safe from a phone theft or a malicious attack that could put our private life in danger. And without even seeing the worst, it may happen that you lend your Huawei P8 to someone you trust a lot without being sure that they are not going to explore the contents of your Android smartphone.

It is therefore your responsibility to protect the confidentiality of your information. And for that, the best possibility remains creating a private album on your Huawei P8 which will give you the possibility to put your documents, photos and videos in a place hidden from prying eyes. This private album can be secured by various means (secure platform, by hiding it in your Android smartphone, by adding a password or also by a biometric lock, etc.). Thus, opening a private album on your Huawei P8 can only be done by yourself or by third parties to whom you have accepted the accessibility of the album.

How to create a private album?

So, if you want to hide folders, photos or also videos, the best solution is to create a private album on your Huawei P8. And for this, there are several solutions.

You can use an app To download or you can go through the settings menu from your Android smartphone. Indeed, many Android phone manufacturers have grasped the interest in customers wanting to protect their data. Therefore, on some versions of Huawei P8, they offer the option to create an automatically integrated secure private album.

Therefore, in order to choose the option that best suits you for hiding pictures or videos on your Huawei P8, we recommend that you read our article about it.

How to open a private album on your Huawei P8?

To open a private album on your Huawei P8, everything will depend on the version of your Android smartphone et the method you used to lock the album.

Open a confidential album on your Huawei P8 using private mode

Some versions of Android smartphones have a " Private mode". With it, you can create a folder on your Huawei P8 to hide your photos and videos. So whenever 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 add a secret code.

To discover and open the album you saved in private mode on your Huawei P8, here is the maneuver:

  • Activated private mode.
  • But for this two manipulations are available to you. The first method consists of:
    • Open the notifications menu,
    • Unroll it notifications menu
    • Press the private mode icon 
  • Or the second method is to:
    • Go to Settings
    • Press the button on the Private mode.
  • Enter your private mode access code.
  • You will then have access to the photos and videos that are in your private album.

Open a private album on a Huawei P8 with a password

Whether you want to open a private album created by your device or by a third-party application, you will always have to type the access code that you saved when you created it. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a pattern, or a password. To open your private album on your Huawei P8, all you have to do is go to the album and type your pass.

Be careful to remember the access code, because to thwart any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there is usually no other way to recover it. In some cases, you can reset it if you have indicated an email address or if you have linked it to a personal account. In this specific case, when entering your code, you can then have the solution to click on " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.

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