Who has never given their phone to an acquaintance wishing with all their heart that the latter does not come across confidential photos or videos? Although you are happy to share some data, others are made to remain confidential in order to protect your privacy. Consequently, to do this, you must ensure the confidentiality of your documents. The easiest solution is to create a private album. However, it is not always easy to know how to use it. We will discover now in this article how to open a private album on an OPPO Find X3. First, we will find out for what purpose to use a confidential album. Secondly we will see the different possibilities to open a private folder on your OPPO Find X3.

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Why use a private album on your OPPO Find X3?

What is the role of a private folder on your OPPO Find X3?

You do not share your personal information with just anyone and the same reflex of confidentiality should in the same way concern the things which are on your smartphone, and particularly your photos and videos. Especially since we are in no way immune to the theft of our personal belongings or a malicious attack that can put our privacy at risk. And without imagining the worst, it sometimes happens that you lend your OPPO Find X3 to someone in whom you have great confidence without being sure that he will not wander on the contents of your phone.

Therefore, it is up to you to control the privacy of your data. And to do this, the best option is undoubtedly creating a private album on your OPPO Find X3 which will allow you to put your documents, photos and videos away from prying eyes. This private album can be secured by different processes (secure platform, hidden in your mobile phone, by configuring an access code or fingerprint, etc.). Consequently, opening a private album on your OPPO Find X3 can only be done by yourself or by third parties whose access code you have granted.

How to create a private album?

In order to hide folders, photos but also videos, the best possibility is therefore to create a private album on your OPPO Find X3. And for that, there are a number of ways to do it.

You can use an app to install via Google Play Store or you have the possibility to go through the settings menu of your Android smartphone. Indeed, many telephone manufacturers have understood the usefulness for users of having to protect their media. In this way, on various versions of OPPO Find X3, they offer the creation of an automatically integrated secure private album.

So, if you want to choose the option that best suits you for hiding images or videos on your OPPO Find X3, see our article on this subject.

How to open a private album on your OPPO Find X3?

To open a private album on your OPPO Find X3, everything will depend on your Android device version et how you used to lock the album.

Open a private album on your OPPO Find X3 using private mode

Several versions of Android smartphones have a " Private mode“. Thanks to it, you can create a folder from your OPPO Find X3 to hide your photos and videos. Consequently, when this private mode is not running on your smartphone, the album is hidden. For this mode to work, you must first configure the private mode and define an access code.

To discover and open the album you have registered in private mode on your OPPO Find X3, here is the maneuver:

  • Activate private mode.
  • There are two ways to do this. The first procedure consists of:
    • Open the notifications menu,
    • Unroll it notifications menu
    • Click on private mode icon 
  • Or the second way is to:
    • Go to Settings
    • Activate the button on the Private mode.
  • Enter your private mode password.
  • You will now have access to the photos and videos put in your private album.

Open a private album on an OPPO Find X3 with the help of a password

Whether opening a private album created by your smartphone or by a third-party application, you will inevitably be asked to type the access code that you saved 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 OPPO Find X3, all you have to do is go to the album, and enter your secret code.

Be careful to memorize the code well, because to thwart any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there are generally no other means of recovering it. In some situations, you will be able to reset it if you have provided an email address or if you have linked it to a personal account. In this specific case, when entering your code, you will then have the option of pressing " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.

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