You have certainly already happened to lend your mobile to an acquaintance wishing with all your heart that the latter does not come across confidential images or videos? Although you are ready to share some data, others are made to remain private in order to protect your personal life. Therefore, to do this, you must guarantee the confidentiality of your media. 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 a Pocophone F3. To get started, find out why you should use a confidential album. Secondly, discover the various methods for opening a private album on your Pocophone F3.

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What is the purpose of using a private album on a Pocophone F3?

What is the role of a private album on a Pocophone F3?

You do not deliver all of your confidential data to just any individual and the same reflex of confidentiality should equally concern the data located on your device, and in particular your images and videos. Especially since none of us is ever safe from phone theft or malicious intrusion that could put our personal lives at risk. And without going to extreme cases, it sometimes happens that you lend your Pocophone F3 to someone in whom you place great trust without being sure that he will not wander on the content of your device.

Therefore, it is up to you to ensure the confidentiality of your files. And to achieve this goal, the best possibility is creating a private album on your Pocophone F3 which will offer you the possibility of placing your documents, images and videos away from prying eyes. This private album can be secured by a certain number of processes (secure platform, hiding it in your Android smartphone, adding a password or fingerprint, etc.). Like this, opening a private album on your Pocophone F3 can only be done by yourself or by third-party individuals whose access code you have granted.

How to create a private album?

In order to hide files, images but also videos, the best solution is therefore to create a private album on your Pocophone F3. And to achieve this, there are a number of ways to do it.

You can use an app To download or you have the possibility to go through the settings menu of your Android smartphone. Indeed, many phone brands have grasped the obligation for users to want to put their media in a safe place. This is why, on some versions of Pocophone F3, they offer the possibility of creating an automatically integrated secure private album.

If you want to choose the solution that best suits you to hide images or videos on your Pocophone F3, we recommend that you read our article on this subject.

How to open a private album on your Pocophone F3?

To open a private album on your Pocophone F3, it all depends on the version that is installed on your Android phone et how you proceeded to lock the album.

Open a private album on your Pocophone F3 using private mode

Some versions of Android phone have a " Private mode“. Thanks to it, you can create an album from your Pocophone F3 to hide your images and videos. So whenever this private mode is not running on your smartphone, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first have to configure the private mode and determine an access code.

To view and open the album you have saved in private mode on your Pocophone F3, here is the process:

  • Activate private mode.
  • But there are two ways to do this. The first procedure consists of:
    • Go to the notifications menu,
    • Unroll it notifications menu
    • Press the private mode icon 
  • Or the second method is to:
    • Meet in the Settings
    • Activate the button on the Private mode.
  • Enter your private mode secret code.
  • You will then have access to the images and videos placed in your private album.

Open a private album on a Pocophone F3 from a password

Whether you are opening a private album created by your phone or by an app downloaded to your phone, you will need to type 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 Pocophone F3, simply go to the album and enter your secret code.

Be careful to save the code in your memory, since to prevent any intrusion on your precious confidential media, there is usually no other way to recover it. Sometimes you will be able to reset it if you have indicated an e-mail address or have linked it to a personal account. If this is the case, when entering your password, you may also be able to click on " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.

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