It has certainly happened to you to lend your mobile to an acquaintance in the hope that the latter does not come across personal photos or videos? While you are prepared to show some data, others are meant to be kept private in order to protect your personal life. Therefore for this reason, you need to be careful about protecting your files. The easiest option is to create 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 LG Q7. First, find out why to use a confidential album. Secondly, discover the various procedures to open a private album on an LG Q7.

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Why use a private album on my LG Q7?

What is the use of a private album on my LG Q7?

You do not give all of your personal information to just anyone and the same confidentiality reflex should apply to the data on your smartphone, and in particular your photos and videos. Especially that no individuals are ever safe from a phone theft or a malicious intrusion which can put our personal life in danger. And without even seeing the worst, it may happen that you lend your LG Q7 to a trusted individual without being sure that they will not wander around the contents of your phone.

Therefore, it is your responsibility to ensure the confidentiality of your files. And to do this, the best possibility turns out to be adding a private album on your LG Q7 which will give you the opportunity to place your files, photos and videos in a place away from the curious. This private album can be secured by various means (secure platform, hidden in your mobile phone, by adding an access code or a biometric lock, etc.). Thus, opening a private album on your LG Q7 can only be done by yourself or by close people to whom you have accepted access.

How to create a private album?

To be able to hide folders, photos but also videos, the best solution is therefore to create a private album on your LG Q7. And to do this, there are various solutions.

You can use an app to install on your phone or you can go through Parameters option from your Android smartphone. Indeed, many phone manufacturers have heard of the need for users to want to protect their media. As a result, on various versions of LG Q7, they provide the option to create an automatically integrated secure private album.

Therefore, in order to choose the solution that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your LG Q7, you can read our article about it.

How to open a private album on your LG Q7?

To open a private album on your LG Q7, everything will depend on the version of your Android mobile et how you proceeded to lock the album.

Open a confidential album on your LG Q7 using private mode

A number of Android smartphone versions have a " Private mode". It offers you the possibility to create an album through your LG Q7 to hide your photos and videos. So whenever this private mode is not activated on your Android, the album is hidden. So that this mode works, you will have to first configure the private mode and add a password.

To discover and open the album you saved in private mode on your LG Q7, here is the maneuver:

  • Activated private mode.
  • There are two possibilities for doing this. The first way is to:
    • Go to the notifications menu,
    • Unroll it notifications menu
    • Press the private mode icon 
  • Or the second method is to:
    • Open them Settings
    • Press the button on the Private mode.
  • Enter your private mode secret code.
  • You will now have access to the photos and videos that are in your private album.

Open a private album on an LG Q7 using a secret code

Whether you want to open a private album created by your phone or by an application downloaded to your phone, you must type the access code that you indicated at the time of its creation. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a pattern, or a password. To open your private album on your LG Q7, all you have to do is go to the album and enter your secret code.

Be careful to save the code in your memory, since to prevent any intrusion on your precious private files, there is often no other way to recover it. Sometimes you can reset it if you entered an email address or linked it to a particular account. If this is the case, when entering your code, you will also be able to click on " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to find it.

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