Who has never lent their mobile to an individual hoping that the latter does not search the gallery and find confidential photos or videos? While you are prepared to exchange some files, others are meant to be kept private in order to protect your private life. This is why you must be vigilant about the confidentiality of your files. The easiest option happens to be creating a private album. However, it is not always easy to understand how to use it. Find out now in this article how to open a private album on a Samsung Galaxy Note 8. First, we will find out why you should use a confidential album. In a second step we will see the different possibilities to open a private folder on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
Why use a private album on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8?
What is the role of a private folder on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8?
You do not communicate all of your confidential information to someone you do not know and the same spirit of confidentiality should in a similar way apply to the content that is on your mobile, and especially your images and videos. Especially that no individuals in any case safe from a phone theft or a malicious attack which can put our private life in danger. And without even seeing the worst, it may happen that you lend your Samsung Galaxy Note 8 to someone you trust a lot without being sure that they will not wander over the content of your smartphone.
It is therefore your responsibility to guarantee the confidentiality of your data. And to do this, the best possibility turns out to be the creation of a private album on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8 which will give you the possibility of placing your documents, photos and videos in a place away from the curious. This private album can be secured by different processes (secure platform, hidden in your Android smartphone, by adding an access code or also by fingerprint, etc.). As a result, opening a private album on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8 can only be done by yourself or by third parties whose album accessibility you have approved.
How to create a private album?
If you want to hide files, photos but also videos, the best possibility is therefore to create a private album on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8. There are a number of solutions to do this.
You can use an app third or you have the possibility to go through the settings menu from your android device. Indeed, many smartphone brands have understood the need for customers to want to protect their media. This is why, on several versions of Samsung Galaxy Note 8, they offer the creation of a secure private album immediately integrated.
If you want to find the best option for you to hide pictures or videos on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8, see our article about it.
How to open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8?
To open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8, everything will depend on your Android phone version et how you used to lock the album.
Open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8 using private mode
Several versions of Android phone have a " Private mode". It offers you the possibility to create a folder through your Samsung Galaxy Note 8 to hide your images and videos. In this way, whenever this private mode is not running on your Android, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you must first configure the private mode and set a password.
To discover and open the album you saved in private mode on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8, here is the process:
- Activated private mode.
- But for that two possibilities are offered to you. The first method consists of:
- Go to the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Click on private mode icon
- Or the second solution is to:
- Open them Settings
- Press the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode password.
- You will now have access to the images and videos that are in your private album.
Open a private album on a Samsung Galaxy Note 8 with the help of a password
Whether it is to open a private album created by your phone or by a third-party application, you will inevitably have to inform the access 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 Note 8, you simply have to go to the album and enter your secret code.
Be careful to memorize the access code, since to prevent any intrusion on your precious confidential media, there is in most cases no other means of recovering it. With a little luck, you can reset it if you have entered an email address or if you have linked it to a personal account. In this specific case, when entering your password, you will then find the possibility of clicking on " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to collect it.
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