Who has never lent their phone to an acquaintance hoping that the latter does not come across secret images or videos? While you are ready to exchange some data, others are meant to be kept private in order to protect your private life. And to do this, you need to protect your data. The safest option turns out to be to create a private album. However, it is not always easy to understand how to use it. We will now see in this article how to open a private album on a Samsung Galaxy A20s. First of all, we will see for what purpose to use a private album. Secondly, learn the different combinations to open a private folder on your Samsung Galaxy A20s.
For what purpose to use a private album on your Samsung Galaxy A20s?
What is a private folder for on your Samsung Galaxy A20s?
You do not transmit all of your confidential data to just any individual and the same confidentiality reflex should also apply to the content on your mobile, and in particular your images and videos. Especially since none of us is ever safe from the theft of our personal belongings or from a malicious attack which can put our private life at risk. And without even seeing the worst, it may happen that you lend your Samsung Galaxy A20s to someone you trust a lot without guaranteeing that they won't explore the contents of your Android smartphone.
Therefore, it is your duty to ensure the confidentiality of your data. And to do this, the best possibility is create a private album on your Samsung Galaxy A20s which will allow you to place your files, images and videos in a place away from the curious. This private album can be secured by a certain number of processes (secure platform, by hiding it in your mobile phone, by configuring a password or fingerprint, etc.). Consequently, opening a private album on your Samsung Galaxy A20s can only be done by yourself or by third parties whose access code you have approved.
How to create a private album?
In order to hide files, images or also videos, the best solution will therefore be to create a private album on your Samsung Galaxy A20s. And there are a number of ways to do this.
You can use an app third or you just have to go through Parameters option from your Android smartphone. Indeed, the majority of smartphone manufacturers have grasped the usefulness for customers to want to secure their data. In this way, on several versions of Samsung Galaxy A20s, they offer the creation of an automatically integrated secure private album.
If you want to find the solution that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your Samsung Galaxy A20s, see our article about it.
How to open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy A20s?
To open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy A20s, everything will depend on your Android phone version et how you proceeded to lock the album.
Open a confidential album on your Samsung Galaxy A20s using private mode
Several versions of Android smartphone have a " Private mode". Thanks to it, you can create a folder on your Samsung Galaxy A20s to hide your images and videos. Like this whenever this private mode is not running on your Android smartphone, the album is hidden. For this mode to work, you must first set up private mode and determine an access code.
To view and open the album you have registered in private mode on your Samsung Galaxy A20s, here is the procedure:
- Activate private mode.
- There are two ways to achieve this. The first way to do this is to:
- Go to the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Tap on the private mode icon
- Or the second solution is to:
- Open them Settings
- Activate the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode password.
- You will now have the authorization to access the images and videos put in your private album.
Open a private album on a Samsung Galaxy A20s with a password
Whether it is to open a private album created by your device or by an app downloaded to your phone, you will need to type the access 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 Samsung Galaxy A20s, you just have to go to the album and type your right pass.
Be careful to save the code in your memory, because to avoid any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there is in most cases no other means of recovering it. With a little luck, you have the possibility to reset it if you have entered an e-mail address or if you have linked it to a personal account. In this specific case, when entering your password, you will then be able to click on " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.
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