Who has never given someone their android smartphone in the hope that they won't go through the gallery and find secret images or videos? Even if you are happy to exchange certain data, others are made to remain confidential in order to protect your privacy. It is for this reason, you must ensure the protection of your documents. The most obvious solution is to create a private album. However, knowing how to use it is not necessarily easy. Learn today how to open a private album on an LG K50S. First, we will see why to use a confidential album. Secondly, learn the various procedures to open a private album on your LG K50S.

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Why use a private album on an LG K50S?

What is the use of a private album on an LG K50S?

You do not hand over all of your confidential data to someone you do not know, and the same spirit of confidentiality should similarly apply to data on your Android, including your images and videos. Especially that no individuals ever safe from a theft of our personal belongings or a malicious attack which could put our privacy at risk. And without even imagining the most extreme situations, it may happen that you lend your LG K50S to someone you trust a lot without being sure that they will not wander the contents of your phone.

Therefore, it is your responsibility to protect the privacy of your files. And to achieve this, the best possibility turns out to be adding a private album on your LG K50S which will give you the opportunity to place your files, images and videos in a place away from the curious. This private album can be secured by a certain number of processes (secure platform, hidden in your mobile phone, by adding a password or also by a biometric lock, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your LG K50S can only be done by yourself or by close people to whom you have granted accessibility to the album.

How to create a private album?

So, if you want to hide folders, images or even videos, the best possibility is therefore to create a private album on your LG K50S. And to do this, there are various solutions.

You can use an app third or you just have to go through the settings from your android phone. Indeed, the majority of phone manufacturers have heard the need for customers to have their files protected. In this way, on various versions of LG K50S, they offer the possibility of creating a secure private album directly integrated.

Therefore, in order to choose the solution that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your LG K50S, we recommend that you read our article about it.

What is the method to open a private album on your LG K50S?

To open a private album on your LG K50S, everything depends on the version that is installed on your Android smartphone et how you went about locking the album.

Open a private album on your LG K50S using a private mode

Several versions of Android phones have a " Private mode". It offers you the possibility to create an album through your LG K50S to hide your images and videos. This way, whenever this private mode is not activated on your device, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first have to set the private mode and add a password.

To view and open the album you saved in private mode on your LG K50S, here is the maneuver:

  • Activated private mode.
  • There are two ways to achieve this. The first option is to:
    • 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 now have permission to access the images and videos placed in your private album.

Open a private album on an LG K50S 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 always have to type the access code that you indicated when creating it. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a drawing, or a password. To open your private album on your LG K50S, all you have to do is go to the album and type your pass.

Be careful to memorize the secret code, since to avoid any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there is generally no other way to recover it. Sometimes, you will be able to reset it if you have entered an e-mail address or if you have linked it to a personal account. In this situation, when entering your secret code, you will also find the choice to press " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.

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