Have you ever had to lend your phone to an acquaintance and wish wholeheartedly that the latter does not fall on photos or personal videos? While you are happy to share some files, others are meant to be kept private to protect your privacy. This is why you must ensure the confidentiality of your files. The easiest solution is to create a private album. However, it is not always easy to know how to use it. We will now find out in this article how to open a private album on a Meizu 16s. First, we will see why to use a private album. Then we will see the different combinations to open a private album on a Meizu 16s.

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Why use a private album on a Meizu 16s?

What is the role of a private album on a Meizu 16s?

You don't share your personal data with someone you don't know and the same spirit of privacy should also apply to things on your mobile, especially your photos and videos. Especially since no one is in any way safe from the theft of our personal belongings or from a malicious intrusion which could put our privacy at risk. And without even seeing the worst, it may happen that you lend your Meizu 16s to an individual you have great confidence in without being sure that he is not going to browse the contents of your smartphone.

It is therefore your responsibility to guarantee the confidentiality of your information. And to achieve this, the best solution remains adding a private album on your Meizu 16s which will offer you the possibility to transfer your files, photos and videos to a place hidden from prying eyes. This private album can be secured by various processes (secure platform, by hiding it in your mobile phone, by configuring an access code or fingerprint, etc.). As a result, opening a private album on your Meizu 16s can only be done by yourself or by third parties to which you have granted access.

How to create a private album?

If you want to hide folders, photos but also videos, the best option is without a doubt to create a private album on your Meizu 16s. And for that, there are a number of solutions.

You can use an app to install on your phone or you just have to go through the settings menu from your Android smartphone. Indeed, many Android phone brands have understood the benefit for customers to want to secure their media. As a result, on various versions of Meizu 16s, they provide the option to create a secure private album immediately integrated.

So, if you want to choose the option that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your Meizu 16s, you can read our article on this topic.

What technique should you use to open a private album on your Meizu 16s?

To open a private album on your Meizu 16s, everything will depend on the version that is installed on your Android smartphone et how you went about locking the album.

Open a confidential album on your Meizu 16s using private mode

Several versions of Android smartphones have a " Private mode". With it, you can create an album using your Meizu 16s to hide your photos and videos. In this way, 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 password.

To discover and open the album you have inserted in private mode on your Meizu 16s, here is the procedure:

  • Activated private mode.
  • There are two ways to do this. The first procedure consists of:
    • Open the notifications menu,
    • Unroll it notifications menu
    • Press the private mode icon 
  • Or the second option is to:
    • Open them Settings
    • Press the button on the Private mode.
  • Enter your private mode access code.
  • You will now have access to the photos and videos that are in your private album.

Open a private album on a Meizu 16s using a password

Whether it is to open a private album created by your phone or by a third-party application, you will necessarily be asked to inform the access code that you gave when you created it. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a drawing, or a password. To open your private album on your Meizu 16s, all you have to do is go to the album, and enter your pass.

Be careful to save the secret code in your memory, since to prevent any intrusion on your precious private files, there is usually no other way to recover it. Sometimes you can reset it if you've entered an email address or linked it to a particular account. In this situation, when entering your access code, you may also have the choice to click on " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to find it.

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