Have you ever had to lend your smartphone to someone, wishing with all your heart that the latter would not come across secret photos or videos? Although you gladly want to share some data, others are made to remain private to protect your privacy. To do this, you must guarantee the protection of your data. The most common solution is to create a private album. However, it is not always easy to understand how to use it. We will now see in this article how to open a private album on a Wiko Power U30. First of all, we will find out for what purpose to use a private album. In a second step we will see the various methods to open a private folder on your Wiko Power U30.
What is the purpose of using a private album on your Wiko Power U30?
What is the use of a private folder on your Wiko Power U30?
You do not deliver all of your personal information to just any individual and the same confidentiality reflex should equally concern the data on your smartphone, and in particular your images and videos. Especially since none of us are ever safe from phone theft or a malicious attack that can put our privacy at risk. And without imagining the worst, it may happen that you lend your Wiko Power U30 to a colleague, friend or relative in whom you have great confidence without the assurance that he will not take a look at the content of your phone.
It is therefore your duty to ensure the confidentiality of your files. And for that, the best option remains creating a private album on your Wiko Power U30 which will give you the possibility to put your documents, photos and videos in a place away from the curious. This private album can be secured by different means (secure platform, hiding it in your smartphone, adding an access code or fingerprint, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your Wiko Power U30 can only be done by yourself or by close people whose access you have approved.
How to create a private album?
To hide documents, photos but also videos, the best solution is undoubtedly the creation of a private album on your Wiko Power U30. And for that, there are several ways to do it.
You can use an app to install on your phone or you have the possibility to go through the settings of your Android smartphone. Indeed, many Android phone manufacturers have understood the obligation for users to want to put their data in a safe place. This is why, on some versions of Wiko Power U30, they offer the creation of a directly integrated secure private album.
In order to find the option that suits you best for hiding images or videos on your Wiko Power U30, you can read our article on this subject.
How to open a private album on your Wiko Power U30?
To open a private album on your Wiko Power U30, everything will depend on the version of your Android smartphone et how you went about locking the album.
Open a confidential album on your Wiko Power U30 using a private mode
A number of Android smartphone versions have a " Private mode“. Thanks to it, you can create a folder from your Wiko Power U30 to hide your images and videos. This way when this private mode is not running on your device, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will first need to set up private mode and set a password.
To view and open the album you have saved in private mode on your Wiko Power U30, here is the process:
- Activate private mode.
- There are two ways to do this. The first method consists of:
- Open the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Tap on the private mode icon
- Or the second option is to:
- Go to Settings
- Activate the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode password.
- You will then have the authorization to access the images and videos that are in your private album.
Open a private album on a Wiko Power U30 using a password
Whether to open a private album created by your device or by an application downloaded to your phone, you will necessarily be asked to type the code that you administered when you created it. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a pattern, or a password. To open your private album on your Wiko Power U30, all you have to do is go to the album, and enter your secret code.
Be careful to save the secret code in your memory, since to thwart any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there is in most cases no other means of recovering it. In some cases, you can reset it if you have entered an email address or if you have linked it to a particular account. In these cases, when entering your secret code, you will also find the possibility of pressing " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to recover it.
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