Who has ever lent their phone to an acquaintance hoping that the latter does not rummage through the gallery and find personal images or videos? Even if you gladly want to share a certain number of files, others are made to remain confidential in order to protect your private life. To do this, you must ensure the confidentiality of your documents. The most accessible option is creating a private album. That said, it is not necessarily easy to know how to use it. We will now see in this article how to open a private album on a Xiaomi 11T Pro. First of all, we will see why to use a private album. Then discover the various methods to open a private folder on your Xiaomi 11T Pro.

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What is the purpose of using a private album on your Xiaomi 11T Pro?

What is a private folder for on his Xiaomi 11T Pro?

You don't share your confidential data with just anyone, and the same spirit of privacy should equally apply to the things on your device, including your photos and videos. Especially since we are never safe from a phone theft or a malicious attack that can put our intimate life at risk. And without imagining the worst, it sometimes happens that you lend your Xiaomi 11T Pro to a trusted person without being sure that it will not wander on the content of your smartphone.

Therefore, it is your responsibility to defend the confidentiality of your data. And to do this, the best solution is creating a private album on your Xiaomi 11T Pro which will give you the possibility to place your documents, images and videos in a safe place. This private album can be secured by various processes (secure platform, by hiding it in your smartphone, by configuring a password or a biometric lock, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your Xiaomi 11T Pro can only be done by yourself or by close people to whom you have given access.

How to create a private album?

In order to hide files, images but also videos, the best solution will therefore be to create a private album on your Xiaomi 11T Pro. And to achieve this, there are various ways to do it.

You can use an app to install via Google Play Store or it is possible to go through the settings menu from your android device. Indeed, many phone manufacturers have heard the interest for customers to have to put their data in a safe place. Because of this, on various versions of Xiaomi 11T Pro, they offer the possibility of creating an automatically integrated secure private album.

To find the solution that best suits you for hiding images or videos on your Xiaomi 11T Pro, we recommend that you read our article on this subject.

How to open a private album on your Xiaomi 11T Pro?

To open a private album on your Xiaomi 11T Pro, it all depends on the version that is installed on your Android phone et how you proceeded to lock the album.

Open a confidential album on your Xiaomi 11T Pro using private mode

Several versions of Android mobile have a " Private mode“. Thanks to it, you can create a folder from your Xiaomi 11T Pro to hide your photos and videos. Therefore, when this private mode is not activated on your phone, the album is hidden. For this mode to work, you must first set the private mode and choose a password.

To discover and open the album you have registered in private mode on your Xiaomi 11T Pro, here is the maneuver:

  • Activated private mode.
  • There are two ways to do this. The first procedure consists of:
    • Open the notifications menu,
    • Unroll it notifications menu
    • Click on private mode icon 
  • Or the second option is to:
    • Go to Settings
    • Press the button on the Private mode.
  • Enter your private mode password.
  • You will now have access to the photos and videos put in your private album.

Open a private album on a Xiaomi 11T Pro with the help of a password

Whether to open a private album created by your smartphone or by an application downloaded to your phone, you will have to type the access code that you administered at the time of its creation. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a drawing, or a password. To open your private album on your Xiaomi 11T Pro, simply go to the album and type your pass.

Be careful to save the code in your memory, since to thwart any intrusion on your precious confidential data, there is generally no other way to recover it. In some situations, you can reset it if you provided an email address or attached it to a particular account. In this specific case, when entering your password, you will also have the option of pressing " Forgotten password". It's up to you to follow the instructions to find it.

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