Have you ever had to lend your mobile to an individual in the hope that the latter does not search the gallery and find photos or personal videos? While you may be happy to share some data, others are meant to be kept private in order to protect your privacy. Therefore, to do this, you must ensure the protection of your media. The easiest option turns out to be to create a private album. Despite everything, it is not always easy to know how to use it. We will now see in this article how to open a private album on a Lenovo Z6. First, find out what to use a private album for. Then learn the different combinations to open a private album on your Lenovo Z6.

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For what reasons to use a private album on your Lenovo Z6?

What is the use of a private album on your Lenovo Z6?

You don't share your personal information with someone you don't know, and the same spirit of privacy should apply to the content on your Android as well, including your images and videos. Especially since we are in no way immune to phone theft or malicious intrusion which can put our privacy at risk. And without even seeing the worst, it may happen that you lend your Lenovo Z6 to someone you trust a lot without guaranteeing that they will not walk around the content of your device.

It is therefore your responsibility to guarantee the confidentiality of your data. And for that, the best option remains adding a private album on your Lenovo Z6 which will give you the possibility to transfer your files, snapshots and videos away from prying eyes. This private album can be secured by different processes (secure platform, by hiding it in your Android smartphone, by adding an access code or also by fingerprint, etc.). As a result, opening a private album on your Lenovo Z6 can only be done by yourself or by close people to whom you have accepted access.

How to create a private album?

To hide documents, snapshots or videos, the best possibility will be to create a private album on your Lenovo Z6. And to achieve this, there are various ways of doing things.

You can use an app to install via Google Play Store or you just have to go through the settings from your Android. Indeed, many smartphone manufacturers have understood the usefulness for customers of having to put their data in a safe place. That is why, on various versions of Lenovo Z6, they offer the possibility of creating an automatically integrated secure private album.

Therefore, in order to choose the option that best suits you for hiding pictures or videos on your Lenovo Z6, we recommend that you read our article on it.

How to open a private album on your Lenovo Z6?

To open a private album on your Lenovo Z6, everything will depend on your Android phone version et the method you used to lock the album.

Open a private album on your Lenovo Z6 using private mode

A number of Android phone versions feature a " Private mode". It allows you to create an album through your Lenovo Z6 to hide your pictures and videos. In this way, whenever this private mode is not running on your Android, the album is hidden. For this mode to work, you will first have to set the private mode and set an access code.

To view and open the album you have registered in private mode on your Lenovo Z6, here is the maneuver:

  • Activate private mode.
  • But for this two manipulations are available to you. The first method consists of:
    • Open the notifications menu,
    • Unroll it notifications menu
    • Click on private mode icon 
  • Or the second way is to:
    • Open them Settings
    • Activate the button on the Private mode.
  • Enter your private mode access code.
  • You will now have permission to access the images and videos that are in your private album.

Open a private album on a Lenovo Z6 with the help of a secret code

Whether it is to open a private album created by your smartphone or by a third-party app, you will inevitably have to inform the code that you gave 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 Lenovo Z6, all you have to do is go to the album, and enter your secret code.

Be careful to save the secret code in your memory, because to thwart any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there is generally no other way to recover it. In some cases, you have the option of resetting it if you have entered an email address or if you have linked it to a particular account. In this specific case, when entering your password, you will also have the choice of pressing " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.

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