Who has never given their android smartphone to a friend, a relative or a colleague, wishing wholeheartedly that the latter does not fall on confidential photos or videos? Even if you are willing to share a certain amount of data, others are meant to be kept private in order to protect your privacy. To do this, you need to be careful about protecting your media. The most accessible option happens to be the creation of a private album. However, it is not always easy to know how to use it. Find out now in this article how to open a private album on an Infinix. First, learn why to use a confidential album. In the second place we will see the different combinations to open a private album on your Infinix.

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Why use a private album on your Infinix?

What is the use of a private album on his Infinix?

You do not transmit your confidential information to just any individual and the same spirit of confidentiality should equally apply to the content that is on your Android smartphone, and especially your photos and videos. Especially since none of us is ever safe from the theft of our personal belongings or from a malicious attack which can put our privacy at risk. And without going to extreme cases, it sometimes happens that you lend your Infinix to an individual in whom you have great confidence without being assured that he is not going to explore the contents of your mobile.

Therefore, it is your duty to ensure the confidentiality of your information. And for that, the best possibility is undoubtedly the creation of a private album on your Infinix 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 different means (secure platform, hidden in your mobile phone, by adding a password or even a fingerprint, etc.). This way, opening a private album on your Infinix can only be done by yourself or by close people whose album accessibility you have approved.

How to create a private album?

In order to hide folders, photos or videos, the best solution is without a doubt to create a private album on your Infinix. And to do this, we find a number of solutions.

You can use an app to install via Google Play Store or it is possible to go through Parameters option from your android device. Indeed, many smartphone manufacturers have understood the obligation for users to have to put their data in a safe place. That is why, on various versions of Infinix, they offer the possibility of creating a secure private album immediately integrated.

To choose the solution that best suits you to hide images or videos on your Infinix, see our article on this subject.

How to open a private album on your Infinix?

To open a private album on your Infinix, everything depends on the version of your Android mobile et how you used to lock the album.

Open a confidential album on your Infinix using private mode

Several versions of Android mobile offer a " Private mode". It offers you the possibility of creating an album through your Infinix to hide your photos and videos. So whenever this private mode is not activated on your smartphone, the album is hidden. For this mode to work, you will first have to set the private mode and configure an access code.

To discover and open the album you have registered in private mode on your Infinix, here is the maneuver:

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

Open a private album on an Infinix using a secret code

Whether you want to open a private album created by your phone or by an application downloaded to your phone, it will be essential to type the access code that you administered when you created it. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a drawing, or a password. To open your private album on your Infinix, you just have to go to the album and type your right pass.

Be careful to memorize the access code, because to thwart any intrusion on your precious private files, there is in most cases no other means of recovering it. Hopefully, you have the option of resetting it if you've entered an email address or linked it to a particular account. In this situation, when entering your password, you may also have the choice of pressing " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.

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