Who has never given their smartphone to an acquaintance, hoping wholeheartedly that the latter does not come across confidential images or videos? Although you are willing to show some data, others are made to remain private to protect your personal life. This is why you must guarantee the confidentiality of your documents. The most obvious option turns out to be to create a private album. However, it is not always easy to know how to use it. We will discover now in this article how to open a private album on a Vivo V23. First, we will find out why to use a confidential album. In a second step we will see the various methods to open a private album on your Vivo V23.

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Why use a private album on your Vivo V23?

What is a private album for on your Vivo V23?

You do not transmit all of your personal information to an individual you do not know and the same reflex of confidentiality should also concern the things that are on your Android smartphone, and particularly your images and videos. Especially since no one is in any way safe from a phone theft or an ill-intentioned attack which risks putting our personal life in danger. And without going to extreme cases, it sometimes happens that you lend your Vivo V23 to someone in whom you have great confidence without being certain that he is not going to explore the content of your phone.

It is therefore your responsibility to defend the confidentiality of your data. And to achieve this, the best possibility turns out to be to create a private album on your Vivo V23 which will allow you to place your documents, images and videos away from prying eyes. This private album can be secured by several means (secure platform, hidden in your mobile phone, adding an access code or fingerprint, etc.). Consequently, opening a private album on your Vivo V23 can only be done by yourself or by close people whose accessibility to the album you have accepted.

How to create a private album?

To be able to hide folders, images or videos, the best option is therefore to create a private album on your Vivo V23. And to do this, there are several ways to do it.

You can use an app to install via Google Play Store or you can go through Parameters option of your Android. Indeed, many phone manufacturers have understood the obligation for customers to protect their files. Therefore, on several versions of Vivo V23, they offer the possibility of creating an automatically integrated secure private album.

If you want to find the option that best suits you to hide images or videos on your Vivo V23, see our article on this subject.

What is the method to open a private album on your Vivo V23?

To open a private album on your Vivo V23, everything will depend on the version that is installed on your Android device et how you proceeded to lock the album.

Open a private album on your Vivo V23 using private mode

A number of Android phone versions have a " Private mode“. It allows you to create an album through your Vivo V23 to hide your images and videos. This way when this private mode is not running on your smartphone, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first have to set the private mode and choose a secret code.

To view and open the album you have saved in private mode on your Vivo V23, here is the process:

  • Activate private mode.
  • You have two options for this. The first option is to:
    • Go to the notifications menu,
    • Unroll it notifications menu
    • Press the private mode icon 
  • Or the second solution is to:
    • Go to Settings
    • Activate the button on the Private mode.
  • Write your secret code for private mode.
  • You will now have the authorization to access the images and videos put in your private album.

Open a private album on a Vivo V23 from a secret code

Whether you want to open a private album created by your Android smartphone or by a third-party application, you will have to type the access 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 Vivo V23, all you have to do is go to the album and type in your pass.

Be careful to memorize the access code well, since to prevent any intrusion on your precious private files, there is most of the time no other way to recover it. In some cases, you can reset it if you have provided an e-mail address or linked it to a personal account. In this case, when entering your secret code, you can then have the solution of pressing " Forgotten password". It's up to you to follow the instructions to find it.

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