Have you inevitably happened to give your phone to an acquaintance and wish wholeheartedly that they wouldn't go through the gallery and find personal pictures or videos? While you may be willing to share some files, others are meant to be kept private in order to protect your private life. Therefore, to do this, you must ensure the protection of your documents. The safest solution is to create a private album. However, it is not necessarily easy to understand how to use it. We will now find out in this article how to open a private album on an Oppo Reno 3. First, find out what to use a private album for. Then learn the different possibilities to open a private album on your Oppo Reno 3.

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Why use a private album on your Oppo Reno 3?

What is the role of a private album on your Oppo Reno 3?

You don't give all of your personal information to someone you don't know, and the same spirit of privacy should similarly apply to the content on your Android, including your images and videos. Especially since none of us is ever safe from a phone theft or a malicious attack that could put our private life at risk. And without imagining the worst, it sometimes happens that you lend your Oppo Reno 3 to a colleague, a friend or a relative in whom you have great confidence without the assurance that he will not go wandering around the content of your Android smartphone. .

Therefore, it is your responsibility to control the confidentiality of your data. And to achieve this, the best option is adding a private album on your Oppo Reno 3 which will offer you the possibility of transferring your documents, images and videos to a place away from the curious. This private album can be secured by a number of means (secure platform, by hiding it in your device, by configuring an access code or also by a biometric lock, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your Oppo Reno 3 can only be done by yourself or by close people whose access code you have granted.

How to create a private album?

In order to hide folders, images but also videos, the best possibility is to create a private album on your Oppo Reno 3. There are several ways to do this.

You can use an app to install on your phone or it is possible to go through the settings menu from your android phone. Indeed, many phone manufacturers have heard the usefulness for customers to want to secure their files. Therefore, on some versions of Oppo Reno 3, they provide the option to create an automatically integrated secure private album.

If you want to choose the option that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your Oppo Reno 3, we recommend that you read our article on this subject.

How to open a private album on your Oppo Reno 3?

To open a private album on your Oppo Reno 3, everything depends on your Android phone version et how you went about locking the album.

Open a private album on your Oppo Reno 3 using private mode

Several versions of Android smartphone have a " Private mode". With it, you can create an album on your Oppo Reno 3 to hide your images and videos. So whenever this private mode is not turned on on your smartphone, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first need to set the private mode and determine a password.

To discover and open the album you saved in private mode on your Oppo Reno 3, here is the maneuver:

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

Open a private album on an Oppo Reno 3 from a password

Whether it is to open a private album created by your Android smartphone or by an application downloaded to your phone, you must inform the code that you administered at the time of its creation. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a pattern, or a password. To open your private album on your Oppo Reno 3, all you have to do is go to the album and enter your secret code.

Be careful to remember the secret code, because to thwart any intrusion on your precious confidential media, there is often no other means of recovering it. In some cases, you can reset it if you have entered an e-mail address or if you have linked it to a personal account. In these cases, when entering your secret code, you may then have the option of clicking on " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to collect it.

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