Who has never given their phone to an acquaintance hoping that the latter does not search the gallery and find personal photos or videos? Although there is a certain amount of data you are prepared to exchange, others are meant to be kept confidential in order to protect your privacy. It is for this reason, you must ensure the confidentiality of your documents. The easiest option is to create a private album. However, it is not always easy to understand how to use it. We will find out today how to open a private album on an LG X4. To get started, we'll find out why to use a private album. Secondly, discover the techniques to open a private album on your LG X4.
Why use a private album on your LG X4?
What is the use of a private album on your LG X4?
You do not transmit all of your confidential information to someone you do not know and the same spirit of confidentiality should equally apply to the content that is on your smartphone, and especially your images and videos. Especially since none of us is ever safe from a phone theft or malicious intrusion which can put our privacy at risk. And without going to extreme cases, it may happen that you lend your LG X4 to someone you have great confidence in without being assured that they will not be exploring the contents of your smartphone.
It is therefore up to you to ensure the confidentiality of your information. And to do this, the best option is undoubtedly adding a private album on your LG X4 which will give you the possibility to place your files, photos and videos in a place hidden from prying eyes. This private album can be secured by several means (secure platform, by hiding it in your device, by adding an access code or fingerprint, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your LG X4 can only be done by yourself or by third parties whose access code you have accepted.
How to create a private album?
If you want to hide folders, photos or videos, the best solution will be to create a private album on your LG X4. And to do this, we find various solutions.
You can use an app to install on your phone or you have the possibility to go through the settings from your Android. Indeed, the majority of smartphone manufacturers have heard the usefulness for customers to want to protect their data. Therefore, on several versions of LG X4, they offer the creation of a secure private album immediately integrated.
To find the solution that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your LG X4, we recommend that you read our article on this subject.
How to open a private album on your LG X4?
To open a private album on your LG X4, everything will depend on your Android device version et how you went about locking the album.
Open a confidential album on your LG X4 using private mode
Several versions of Android phones have a " Private mode". With it, you can create an album from your LG X4 to hide your images and videos. Like this whenever this private mode is not activated on your mobile, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first have to configure the private mode and determine a secret code.
To view and open the album you have inserted in private mode on your LG X4, here is the procedure:
- Activate private mode.
- But there are two ways of doing this. The first way to do this is to:
- Go to the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Tap on the private mode icon
- Or the second option is to:
- Open them Settings
- Activate the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode password.
- You will now have permission to access the images and videos that are in your private album.
Open private album on LG X4 using password
Whether it is to open a private album created by your smartphone or by an application downloaded on your phone, you will need to inform the access code that you administered 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 LG X4, you simply have to go to the album and enter your right pass.
Be careful to memorize the code, since to thwart any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there are generally no other ways to recover it. In certain situations, you have the possibility to reset it if you have entered an e-mail address or if you have attached it to a specific account. In this specific case, when entering your password, you will then have the solution to press " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to find it.
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