Have you necessarily happened to lend your smartphone to an individual hoping that the latter does not come across confidential images or videos? Even if you are ready to share some files, others are made to remain private in order to protect your intimate life. For this reason, you must ensure the protection of your documents. The most obvious option is to create a private album. Nevertheless, it is not necessarily easy to know how to use it. Learn now in this article how to open a private album on a Xiaomi 12X. First, learn why you should use a private album. Secondly, learn the different possibilities to open a private folder on a Xiaomi 12X.
What is the purpose of using a private album on a Xiaomi 12X?
What is the role of a private folder on a Xiaomi 12X?
You do not give your confidential information to just anyone and the same spirit of confidentiality should also apply to the data on your phone, and in particular your images and videos. Especially since no individuals are in any way immune to phone theft or malicious intrusion that are able to put our intimate lives at risk. And without going to extreme cases, it sometimes happens that you lend your Xiaomi 12X to a person in whom you have great confidence without being sure that he will not wander on the content of your device.
Therefore, it is your duty to control the confidentiality of your information. And to achieve this goal, the best possibility turns out to be adding a private album to your Xiaomi 12X which will allow you to put your documents, images and videos in a safe place. This private album can be secured by a number of means (secure platform, hidden in your mobile phone, by configuring an access code or also by a biometric lock etc). Therefore, opening a private album on your Xiaomi 12X can only be done by yourself or by third parties to whom you have granted access.
How to create a private album?
To be able to hide files, images or videos, the best solution will therefore be to create a private album on your Xiaomi 12X. And to achieve this, there are several solutions.
You can use an app to install via Google Play Store or you have the possibility to go through the settings from your android device. Indeed, the majority of smartphone manufacturers have understood the need for users to have to protect their files. Accordingly, on various versions of Xiaomi 12X, they offer the creation of a directly integrated secure private album.
If you want to find the solution that best suits you to hide images or videos on your Xiaomi 12X, we recommend that you read our article on this subject.
How to open a private album on your Xiaomi 12X?
To open a private album on your Xiaomi 12X, it all depends on your Android phone version et how you proceeded to lock the album.
Open a confidential album on your Xiaomi 12X using a private mode
A number of Android mobile versions have a " Private mode“. It allows you to create a folder from your Xiaomi 12X to hide your images and videos. This way when this private mode is not activated on your mobile phone, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you will have to first configure the private mode and configure a password.
To view and open the album you have saved in private mode on your Xiaomi 12X, here is the maneuver:
- Activated private mode.
- There are two methods available for this. The first method consists of:
- Open the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Press the private mode icon
- Or the second procedure is to:
- Open them Settings
- Press the button on the Private mode.
- Enter 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 Xiaomi 12X using a password
Whether to open a private album created by your Android smartphone or by a third-party app, 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 Xiaomi 12X, 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, because to avoid any intrusion on your precious confidential media, there is in most cases no other way to recover it. In some situations, you can reset it if you provided an email address or linked it to a specific account. In this case, 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 find it.
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