Who has never lent their android smartphone to a friend, relative or even a colleague wishing with all their heart that the latter does not rummage through the gallery and find secret images or videos? Although you are happy to show some data, others are made to remain confidential to protect your personal life. This is why you need to be vigilant in protecting your files. The safest option turns out to be creating a private album. However, it is not always easy to know how to use it. We will now find out in this article how to open a private album on a Samsung Galaxy M12. First, learn why you should use a private album. Secondly, discover the techniques for opening a private album on your Samsung Galaxy M12.

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Why use a private album on a Samsung Galaxy M12?

What is a private album for on a Samsung Galaxy M12?

You do not transmit your confidential data to anyone and the same reflex of confidentiality should in a similar way concern the data which are located on your smartphone, and particularly your photos and videos. Especially since no individuals are ever safe from phone theft or malicious intrusion that could put our personal lives in danger. And without imagining the worst, it sometimes happens that you lend your Samsung Galaxy M12 to an individual in whom you have great confidence without being sure that he will not explore the content of your smartphone.

Therefore, it is your duty to maintain the confidentiality of your files. And to achieve this goal, the best possibility will be adding a private album on your Samsung Galaxy M12 which will offer you the possibility of transferring your documents, images and videos to a place hidden from prying eyes. This private album can be secured by various processes (secure platform, hidden in your Android smartphone, adding an access code or a biometric lock, etc.). Thus, opening a private album on your Samsung Galaxy M12 can only be done by yourself or by third-party individuals to whom you have granted access to the album.

How to create a private album?

To hide folders, images or even videos, the best solution is to create a private album on your Samsung Galaxy M12. And for this, there are several solutions.

You can use an app To download or it is possible to go through the settings of your Android. Indeed, many smartphone brands have grasped the need for users to have to protect their media. Therefore, on various versions of Samsung Galaxy M12, they offer creating an automatically built-in secure private album.

So, if you want to find the solution that best suits you for hiding images or videos on your Samsung Galaxy M12, we recommend that you read our article on this subject.

What technique to use to open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy M12?

To open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy M12, everything depends on the version that is installed on your Android smartphone et how you proceeded to lock the album.

Open a confidential album on your Samsung Galaxy M12 using private mode

Several versions of Android phone have a " Private mode“. It offers you the possibility to create an album through your Samsung Galaxy M12 to hide your photos and videos. So when this private mode is not running on your Android, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first need to configure private mode and set a passcode.

To display and open the album that you have inserted in private mode on your Samsung Galaxy M12, here is the maneuver:

  • Activate private mode.
  • There are two ways to achieve this. The first procedure consists of:
    • Go to the notifications menu,
    • Unroll it notifications menu
    • Click on private mode icon 
  • Or the second way is to:
    • Open them Settings
    • Activate the button on the Private mode.
  • Enter your private mode password.
  • You will now have access to the photos and videos that are in your private album.

Open a private album on a Samsung Galaxy M12 using a password

Whether you want to open a private album created by your smartphone or by an application downloaded to your phone, you will necessarily be asked to fill in the access code that you saved 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 Samsung Galaxy M12, all you have to do is go to the album, and enter your pass.

Be careful to save the secret code in your memory, because to thwart any intrusion on your precious private files, there is often no other way to recover it. In some cases, you will be able to reset it if you have entered an e-mail address or have attached it to a specific account. In this case, when entering your password, you may then have the option of clicking on " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to collect it.

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