Who has never lent his phone to an acquaintance and wished wholeheartedly that this last one does not fall on photos or personal videos? While you are prepared to show some data, some data is meant to be kept private in order to protect your privacy. To do this, you must guarantee the confidentiality of your media. The safest option remains the creation of a private album. However, it is not necessarily easy to know how to use it. We will now see in this article how to open a private album on a Samsung Galaxy J1. To get started, we'll find out why to use a confidential album. In a second step we will see the different possibilities to open a private album on a Samsung Galaxy J1.
For what reasons to use a private album on a Samsung Galaxy J1?
What is the use of a private album on a Samsung Galaxy J1?
You do not communicate your confidential data to an individual you do not know and the same confidentiality reflex should also apply to the content that is on your Android smartphone, and in particular your photos and videos. Especially that no individuals in any way safe from a phone theft or a malicious attack which are likely to put our privacy at risk. And without imagining the worst, it may happen that you lend your Samsung Galaxy J1 to someone you trust a lot without being sure that they will not go browsing the content of your Android smartphone.
Therefore, it is your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of your files. And for that, the best option is adding a private album on your Samsung Galaxy J1 which will give you the opportunity to place your documents, photos and videos in a place hidden from prying eyes. This private album can be secured by various processes (secure platform, hidden in your mobile phone, by adding a password or even a fingerprint, etc.). Thus, opening a private album on your Samsung Galaxy J1 can only be done by yourself or by third parties whose accessibility of the album you have approved.
How to create a private album?
In order to hide documents, photos but also videos, the best option will be to create a private album on your Samsung Galaxy J1. 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 from your Android smartphone. Indeed, the majority of Android phone manufacturers have understood the need for customers to have their media safe. In this way, on several versions of Samsung Galaxy J1, they offer the possibility of creating an automatically integrated secure private album.
In order to find the solution that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your Samsung Galaxy J1, you can read our article on this subject.
How to open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy J1?
To open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy J1, everything will depend on the version that is installed on your Android phone et how you went about locking the album.
Open a confidential album on your Samsung Galaxy J1 using private mode
Several versions of Android phones have a " Private mode". Thanks to it, you can create an album from your Samsung Galaxy J1 to hide your photos and videos. This way when this private mode is not activated on your mobile phone, the album is hidden. For this mode to work, you will first have to set up private mode and set up an access code.
To view and open the album you have registered in private mode on your Samsung Galaxy J1, here is the procedure:
- Activated private mode.
- There are two ways to do this. The first way is to:
- Open the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Press the private mode icon
- Or the second method is to:
- Open them Settings
- Press the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode code.
- You will now have access to the photos and videos that are in your private album.
Open a private album on a Samsung Galaxy J1 using a secret code
Whether it is to open a private album created by your smartphone or by a third-party app, you will necessarily be asked to type the access code that you administered when you created it. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a pattern, or a password. To open your private album on your Samsung Galaxy J1, all you have to do is go to the album and enter your secret code.
Be careful to remember the code, because to prevent any intrusion on your precious private files, there is generally no other way to recover it. With a little luck, you will be able to reset it if you have entered an email address or if you have attached it to a particular account. In this case, when entering your password, you will then have the solution to press " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.
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