Who has never lent their smartphone to an individual and wished wholeheartedly that the latter does not search the gallery and find personal images or videos? While you may be willing to share some data, some data is meant to be kept private to protect your personal life. For this reason, you need to ensure the protection of your files. The safest option turns out to be the creation of a private album. However, it is not necessarily easy to know how to use it. We will find out today how to open a private album on a Samsung Galaxy S8. First of all, we will find out why to use a confidential album. Then discover the different combinations to open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy S8.
Why use a private album on your Samsung Galaxy S8?
What is the role of a private album on your Samsung Galaxy S8?
You do not communicate 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 Android smartphone, and in particular your images and videos. Especially since none of us is ever safe from a phone theft or a malicious attack that could put our personal life at risk. And without going to extreme cases, it may happen that you lend your Samsung Galaxy S8 to a person you trust with no assurance that they will not explore the contents of your mobile.
Therefore, it is your responsibility to ensure the confidentiality of your files. And to achieve this goal, the best possibility remains adding a private album to your Samsung Galaxy S8 which will give you the opportunity to put your documents, images and videos in a place hidden from prying eyes. This private album can be secured by different processes (secure platform, hidden in your mobile phone, by configuring an access code or fingerprint, etc.). As a result, opening a private album on your Samsung Galaxy S8 can only be done by yourself or by third parties to whom you have granted access.
How to create a private album?
In order to hide folders, images or even videos, the best option is therefore to create a private album on your Samsung Galaxy S8. And to achieve this, there are several ways to do it.
You can use an app to install via Google Play Store or you have the possibility to go through the settings menu from your android device. Indeed, the majority of Android phone brands have understood the usefulness for customers of having to put their files in a safe place. Therefore, on several versions of Samsung Galaxy S8, they offer the creation of a secure private album immediately integrated.
To choose the option that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your Samsung Galaxy S8, you can read our article about it.
How to open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy S8?
To open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy S8, it all depends on the version that is installed on your Android smartphone et how you went about locking the album.
Open a private album on your Samsung Galaxy S8 using private mode
A number of Android phone versions have a " Private mode". It offers you the possibility to create an album from your Samsung Galaxy S8 to hide your pictures and videos. In this way, whenever this private mode is not activated on your phone, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first have to set the private mode and choose an access code.
To discover and open the album you saved in private mode on your Samsung Galaxy S8, here is the process:
- Activated private mode.
- To achieve this two methods are available to you. The first procedure consists of:
- Open the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Click on 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 then have access to the images and videos placed in your private album.
Open a private album on a Samsung Galaxy S8 using a secret code
Whether you want to open a private album created by your device or by an app downloaded to your phone, you will inevitably have to type the code that you administered 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 S8, all you have to do is go to the album, and type your pass.
Be careful to memorize the code, since to avoid any intrusion on your precious confidential media, there is most of the time no other means of recovering it. In some situations, you can reset it if you provided an email address or linked it to a personal account. In this case, when entering your code, you will also have the option of clicking on " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to find it.
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