To whom has it ever happened to give his mobile to an acquaintance in the hope that the latter does not dig into the gallery and does not find photos or confidential videos? Even though you are willing to show some data, others are made to remain confidential in order to protect your personal life. For this reason, you must ensure the protection of your media. The safest option is to create a private album. However, it is not necessarily easy to understand how to use it. We will now see in this article how to open a private album on a Vivo Y16. First, we will see why use a confidential album. Secondly, discover the various processes to open a private album on your Vivo Y16.
What is the purpose of using a private album on your Vivo Y16?
What is the use of a private album on your Vivo Y16?
You do not give your confidential data to someone you do not know and the same spirit of confidentiality should also apply to the things on your mobile, especially your images and videos. Especially since no individuals are in any way safe from phone theft or an ill-intentioned attack that is capable of putting our personal lives in danger. And without even seeing the worst, it may happen that you lend your Vivo Y16 to someone in whom you place a great deal of trust without assurance that they will not walk around on the content of your device.
It is therefore your duty to defend the confidentiality of your files. And to achieve this goal, the best solution will be creating a private album on your Vivo Y16 which will allow you to put your files, photos and videos in a place hidden from prying eyes. This private album can be secured by several means (secure platform, hiding it in your device, configuring a password or fingerprint, etc.). Like this, opening a private album on your Vivo Y16 can only be done by yourself or by third parties whose access you have accepted.
How to create a private album?
In order to hide folders, photos or also videos, the best possibility is therefore undoubtedly the creation of a private album on your Vivo Y16. And to do this, there are several solutions.
You can use an app To download or you have the possibility to go through Parameters option from your android phone. Indeed, many Android phone manufacturers have heard the usefulness for users of having to put their data in a safe place. Therefore, on several versions of Vivo Y16, they offer the possibility of creating a secure private album directly integrated.
Therefore, in order to find the option that best suits you to hide images or videos on your Vivo Y16, see our article on this subject.
How to open a private album on your Vivo Y16?
To open a private album on your Vivo Y16, everything will depend on the version of your Android smartphone et how you proceeded to lock the album.
Open a private album on your Vivo Y16 using private mode
Several versions of Android mobile have a " Private mode“. Thanks to it, you can create an album from your Vivo Y16 to hide your images and videos. Like this whenever this private mode is not running on your phone, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first have to configure the private mode and choose a secret code.
To discover and open the album you have inserted in private mode on your Vivo Y16, here is the maneuver:
- Activated private mode.
- To achieve this, two manipulations are offered to you. The first procedure consists of:
- Go to the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Tap on the private mode icon
- Or the second procedure is to:
- Go to Settings
- Press the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode password.
- You will then have access to the images and videos that are in your private album.
Open a private album on a Vivo Y16 using a password
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 code that you gave when you created it. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a pattern, or a password. To open your private album on your Vivo Y16, all you have to do is go to the album, and enter your secret code.
Be careful to save the code in your memory, because to prevent any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there is in most cases no other way to recover it. Sometimes you have the option to reset it if you have provided an email address or attached it to a specific account. In these cases, when entering your password, you will then have the choice of pressing " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to find it.
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