You have certainly already happened to lend your mobile to a person wishing with all your heart that the latter does not search in the gallery and find no photos or personal videos? Even in case you are willing to show some files, others are made to remain confidential to protect your privacy. Therefore, to do this, you must ensure the protection of your data. The safest solution turns out to be the creation of a private album. However, it is not necessarily easy to know how to use it. Discover today how to open a private album on a Samsung Galaxy A23. First of all, we will discover for what purpose to use a confidential album. Then we will see the various methods for opening a private folder on a Samsung Galaxy A23.
Why use a private album on your Samsung Galaxy A23?
What is a private folder for on your Samsung Galaxy A23?
You do not communicate all of your personal information to an individual you do not know and the same reflex of confidentiality should also concern the content on your Android, and particularly your photos and videos. Especially since no individuals are ever safe from a theft of our personal belongings or an ill-intentioned intrusion that is likely to put our privacy at risk. And without going to extreme cases, it sometimes happens that you lend your Samsung Galaxy A23 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 your responsibility to ensure the confidentiality of your files. And to achieve this, the best possibility is creating a private album on your Samsung Galaxy A23 which will offer you the possibility of putting your documents, photos and videos in a place away from the curious. This private album can be secured by various means (secure platform, hidden in your Android smartphone, by configuring a password or fingerprint, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your Samsung Galaxy A23 can only be done by yourself or by third-party individuals to whom you have granted access.
How to create a private album?
In order to hide files, photos but also videos, the best solution will therefore be to create a private album on your Samsung Galaxy A23. And to do this, there are various ways to do it.
You can use an app third or you have the possibility to go through Parameters option of your Android smartphone. Indeed, many smartphone manufacturers have understood the obligation for users to protect their media. Therefore, on various versions of Samsung Galaxy A23, they offer the possibility of creating an immediately integrated secure private album.
To find the option that best suits you for hiding images or videos on your Samsung Galaxy A23, see our article on this subject.
How to open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy A23?
To open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy A23, everything will depend on the version of your Android smartphone et how you went about locking the album.
Open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy A23 using private mode
Several versions of Android phones have a " Private mode“. It offers you the possibility to create a folder from your Samsung Galaxy A23 to hide your photos and videos. So whenever this private mode is not activated on your Android smartphone, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will need to set the private mode first and set a password.
To view and open the album you have registered in private mode on your Samsung Galaxy A23, here is the maneuver:
- Activated private mode.
- For this, two methods are available to you. The first way to do this is to:
- Go to the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Press the private mode icon
- Or the second option is to:
- Open them Settings
- Press the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode password.
- You will now have access to photos and videos placed in your private album.
Open a private album on a Samsung Galaxy A23 with the help of a password
Whether you want to open a private album created by your phone or by a third-party app, you will necessarily be asked to type the code that you administered when you created it. This access code can be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a drawing, or a password. To open your private album on your Samsung Galaxy A23, simply go to the album and type your right password.
Be careful to remember the access code well, because to avoid any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there is often no other way to recover it. In some cases, you can reset it if you have entered an email address or if you have linked it to a specific account. In these cases, when entering your access code, you will then find the choice to press " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to find it.
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