Have you ever had to lend your smartphone to someone and wish wholeheartedly that they don't come across personal images or videos? Even in the event that you are prepared to show some data, others are meant to be kept private in order to protect your personal life. Therefore, to do this, you must ensure the confidentiality of your data. The most obvious option is to create a private album. However, it is not necessarily easy to understand how to use it. We will see today how to open a private album on an LG Stylo 5. First, we will find out for what purpose to use a confidential album. Secondly, we will see the techniques to open a private folder on your LG Stylo 5.

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Why use a private album on your LG Stylo 5?

What is the role of a private folder on your LG Stylo 5?

You don't share all of your personal data with just any individual, and the same privacy reflex should apply to things on your smartphone as well, especially your images and videos. Especially since we are never safe from a phone theft or a malicious attack that could put our personal life in danger. And without going to extreme cases, it sometimes happens that you lend your LG Stylo 5 to a colleague, friend or relative in whom you have great confidence without being sure that he will not go and take a look at it. content of your phone.

Therefore, it is your responsibility to control the confidentiality of your data. And to achieve this, the best possibility is undoubtedly adding a private album on your LG Stylo 5 which will give you the opportunity to keep your files, images and videos out of prying eyes. This private album can be secured by a number of means (secure platform, by hiding it in your mobile phone, by configuring an access code or a biometric lock, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your LG Stylo 5 can only be done by yourself or by close people whose access code you have granted.

How to create a private album?

To hide documents, images or also videos, the best solution is therefore to create a private album on your LG Stylo 5. There are several ways to do this.

You can use an app third or you just have to go through the settings from your Android. Indeed, many Android phone manufacturers have understood the need for customers to want to protect their data. As a result, on some versions of LG Stylo 5, they offer the option of creating an automatically integrated secure private album.

To find the solution that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your LG Stylo 5, you can read our article on this subject.

How to open a private album on your LG Stylo 5?

To open a private album on your LG Stylo 5, it all depends on the version of your Android smartphone et the method you used to lock the album.

Open a confidential album on your LG Stylo 5 using private mode

A number of Android smartphone versions offer a " Private mode". It allows you to create a folder from your LG Stylo 5 to hide your images and videos. In this way, when this private mode is not activated on your Android, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first have to set up private mode and define a secret code.

To discover and open the album you have registered in private mode on your LG Stylo 5, here is the procedure:

  • Activated private mode.
  • To achieve this two methods exist. The first way to do this is to:
    • Open the notifications menu,
    • Unroll it notifications menu
    • Press the private mode icon 
  • Or the second procedure is to:
    • Meet in the Settings
    • Press the button on the Private mode.
  • Enter your private mode code.
  • You will now have access to the images and videos that are in your private album.

Open a private album on an LG Stylo 5 using a password

Whether you want to open a private album created by your smartphone or by an app downloaded to your phone, you will inevitably have to type the code that you specified when you created it. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a pattern, or a password. To open your private album on your LG Stylo 5, you simply have to go to the album and type in your pass.

Be careful to save the code in your memory, since to thwart any intrusion on your precious confidential media, in most cases there is 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 attached it to a specific account. If this is the case, when entering your code, you will then have the solution to click on " Forgotten password". It's up to you to follow the instructions to find it.

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