Have you ever had to lend your mobile to someone hoping that the latter does not search through the gallery and find personal images or videos? Even if you gladly want to share a certain amount of data, others are made to remain confidential in order to protect your intimate life. As a result, you need to be careful about protecting your media. The safest solution is to create a private album. However, it is not always easy to know how to use it. learn today how to open a private album on a Pocophone M4. First of all, we will see why to use a private album. Secondly, we will see the various methods for opening a private album on your Pocophone M4.
What is the purpose of using a private album on your Pocophone M4?
What is a private album for on your Pocophone M4?
You do not deliver all of your personal data to a person you do not know and the same reflex of confidentiality should in the same way concern the data which is located on your Android smartphone, and in particular your images and videos. Especially since none of us are ever safe from a theft of our personal belongings or a malicious intrusion which are capable of putting our intimate life in danger. And without going to extreme cases, it sometimes happens that you lend your Pocophone M4 to a colleague, a friend or a relative in whom you have great confidence without being assured that he will not explore the content of your device.
It is therefore up to you to control the confidentiality of your files. And to do this, the best option turns out to be creating a private album on your Pocophone M4 which will offer you the possibility of transferring your documents, images and videos in a place safe from curious people. This private album can be secured by a certain number of processes (secure platform, hidden in your device, by configuring a password or also by a biometric lock, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your Pocophone M4 can only be done by yourself or by third parties whose access code you have given.
How to create a private album?
To be able to hide folders, images but also videos, the best possibility is undoubtedly to create a private album on your Pocophone M4. And for that, there are several ways to do it.
You can use an app third or you just have to go through the settings from your android device. Indeed, many phone manufacturers have heard the need for customers to have to put their files in a safe place. Therefore, on various versions of Pocophone M4, they offer the creation of an immediately integrated secure private album.
In order to find the option that best suits you for hiding images or videos on your Pocophone M4, we recommend that you read our article on this subject.
How to open a private album on your Pocophone M4?
To open a private album on your Pocophone M4, everything will depend on the version that is installed on your Android phone et how you used to lock the album.
Open a private album on your Pocophone M4 using private mode
A number of Android mobile versions have a " Private mode“. It offers you the possibility of creating an album through your Pocophone M4 to hide your images and videos. Consequently, when this private mode is not running on your smartphone, the album is hidden. For this mode to work, you will first have to set the private mode and determine an access code.
To discover and open the album you have registered in private mode on your Pocophone M4, here is the maneuver:
- Activate private mode.
- But there are two methods for this. The first method consists of:
- Open the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Press the private mode icon
- Or the second solution is to:
- Open them Settings
- Activate the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your secret code for private mode.
- You will now have access to the images and videos put in your private album.
Open a private album on a Pocophone M4 with the help of a password
Whether you want to open a private album created by your phone or by an application downloaded to your phone, it will be essential to type the 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 Pocophone M4, all you have to do is go to the album and enter your secret code.
Be careful to remember the secret code, since to thwart any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there is generally no other way to recover it. Sometimes, you have the possibility to reset it if you have provided an email address or if you have linked it to a particular account. In this specific case, when entering your access code, you will also find the choice to click on " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to find it.
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