Has it certainly happened to you to lend your android smartphone to an individual in the hope that it does not fall on personal images or videos? While you are prepared to exchange some data, others are meant to be kept confidential in order to protect your personal life. Therefore, for this, you must be vigilant in protecting your documents. The safest solution turns out to be to create a private album. However, it is not necessarily easy to know how to use it. We will see today how to open a private album on a Meizu 16Xs. First, we'll find out why to use a confidential album. Secondly, we will see the techniques for opening a private folder on your Meizu 16Xs.

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Why should you use a private album on your Meizu 16Xs?

What is the role of a private folder on your Meizu 16Xs?

You don't share your confidential data with someone you don't know, and the same privacy reflex should similarly apply to things on your Android, especially your photos and videos. Especially since we are in no way immune to the theft of our personal belongings or a malicious intrusion which is likely to put our personal life at risk. And without even seeing the worst, it sometimes happens that you lend your Meizu 16Xs to someone you trust a lot without guaranteeing that they will not go and take a look at the contents of your smartphone.

It is therefore your duty to protect the confidentiality of your information. And to achieve this, the best possibility is adding a private album on your Meizu 16Xs which will allow you to transfer your files, images and videos to a safe place. This private album can be secured by various processes (secure platform, hidden in your smartphone, by adding a password or even a biometric lock, etc.). Consequently, opening a private album on your Meizu 16Xs can only be done by yourself or by third parties whose access code you have given.

How to create a private album?

In order to hide folders, images or also videos, the best solution is without a doubt to create a private album on your Meizu 16Xs. And to do this, there are several solutions.

You can use an app to install via Google Play Store or you have the possibility to go through the settings from your android device. Indeed, a lot of Android phone brands have understood the need for users to want to protect their files. This is why, on some versions of Meizu 16Xs, they offer the creation of an automatically integrated secure private album.

If you want to find the best solution for you to hide pictures or videos on your Meizu 16Xs, see our article on this topic.

What is the method to open a private album on your Meizu 16Xs?

To open a private album on your Meizu 16Xs, everything will depend on the version that is installed on your Android mobile et the method you used to lock the album.

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

Several versions of Android smartphones have a " Private mode". It offers you the possibility to create a folder through your Meizu 16Xs to hide your photos and videos. In this way, when this private mode is not activated on your smartphone, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you must first set up private mode and set up a secret code.

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

  • Activated private mode.
  • To achieve this two manipulations are available to you. The first way to do this is to:
    • Open the notifications menu,
    • Unroll it notifications menu
    • Tap on the private mode icon 
  • Or the second option is to:
    • Open them Settings
    • Press the button on the Private mode.
  • Enter your private mode code.
  • You will now have the authorization to access the photos and videos that are in your private album.

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

Whether it is opening a private album created by your Android smartphone or by a third-party application, you will necessarily be asked to type the access code that you gave when you created it. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a pattern, or a password. To open your private album on your Meizu 16Xs, all you have to do is go to the album and type your right pass.

Be careful to save the code in your memory, since to avoid any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there is generally no other means of recovering it. In some cases, you can reset it if you have indicated an email address or if you have linked it to a specific account. In this situation, when entering your access code, you will also have the option of pressing " Forgotten password". It's up to you to follow the directions to find it.

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