Have you ever had to lend your phone to someone, hoping that they won't go through the gallery and find photos or personal videos? Even though you are happy to share a certain amount of data, others are made to remain confidential in order to protect your private life. Consequently, for this reason, you must be vigilant about the confidentiality of your data. The most accessible solution turns out to be to create a private album. However, it is not always obvious how to use it. We will now find out in this article how to open a private album on a Huawei Y7. First, we will find out why to use a private album. In a second step we will see the techniques to open a private album on your Huawei Y7.
Why use a private album on a Huawei Y7?
What is a private album on a Huawei Y7 for?
You don't hand over all of your personal data to someone you don't know, and the same privacy reflex should apply to content on your Android, especially your photos and videos. Especially since we are never safe from a phone theft or a malicious intrusion which can put our private life at risk. And without going to extreme cases, it sometimes happens that you lend your Huawei Y7 to an individual whom you have great confidence in without the assurance that they will not go and take a look at the contents of your phone.
Therefore, it is your responsibility to control the confidentiality of your data. And to achieve this, the best possibility turns out to be adding a private album on your Huawei Y7 which will allow you to transfer your files, snapshots and videos to a place safe from the curious. This private album can be secured by various processes (secure platform, hidden in your smartphone, by configuring a password or fingerprint, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your Huawei Y7 can only be done by yourself or by third parties whose access code you have accepted.
How to create a private album?
In order to hide documents, snapshots or even videos, the best option will be the creation of a private album on your Huawei Y7. And to achieve this, there are several ways to do it.
You can use an app to install via Google Play Store or you can go through the settings from your android phone. Indeed, many Android phone brands have understood the benefit for customers to want to secure their media. As a result, on several versions of Huawei Y7, they offer the option of creating an automatically integrated secure private album.
To find the solution that best suits you for hiding pictures or videos on your Huawei Y7, we recommend that you read our article on this subject.
How to open a private album on your Huawei Y7?
To open a private album on your Huawei Y7, everything will depend on the version that is installed on your Android phone et how you proceeded to lock the album.
Open a confidential album on your Huawei Y7 using private mode
Some versions of Android phones have a " Private mode". Thanks to it, you can create an album from your Huawei Y7 to hide your photos and videos. This way whenever 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 define an access code.
To discover and open the album that you have inserted in private mode on your Huawei Y7, here is the maneuver:
- Activated 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 option is to:
- Meet in the Settings
- Press the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode code.
- You will now have the authorization to access the photos and videos put in your private album.
Open a private album on a Huawei Y7 with the help of a secret code
Whether it is to open a private album created by your Android smartphone or by a third-party application, you will necessarily be asked to type the access code that you administered 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 Y7, you simply have to go to the album and type your right pass.
Be careful to save the code in your memory, because to prevent any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there is usually no other way to recover it. With a little luck, you will be able to reset it if you have entered an email address or if you have linked it to a particular account. In these cases, when entering your code, you may then be able to press " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.
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