Who has ever lent their android smartphone to an individual hoping that the latter does not fall on personal photos or videos? Even if you are ready to show a certain number of data, others are made to remain confidential to protect your intimate life. And to do this, you must ensure the confidentiality of your media. The most common option happens to be creating a private album. Nevertheless, it is not necessarily easy to know how to use it. We will now find out in this article how to open a private album on a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite. First of all, we will see the reasons for using a private album. Then we will see the techniques to open a private album on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite.

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What is the purpose of using a private album on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite?

What is the use of a private album on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite?

You do not deliver all of your confidential information to just anyone and the same spirit of confidentiality should apply equally to the content on your Android, and in particular your photos and videos. Especially since no individuals are in any way immune to the theft of our personal belongings or a malicious intrusion that is able to put our intimate life in danger. And without even seeing the worst, it may happen that you lend your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite to a trusted person without being sure that he will not take a look at the contents of your smartphone.

It is therefore up to you to control the confidentiality of your files. And to do this, the best possibility turns out to be adding a private album to your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite which will give you the opportunity to put your documents, photos and videos in a safe place. This private album can be secured by different processes (secure platform, hidden in your smartphone, by configuring a password or also by a biometric lock, etc.). Thus, opening a private album on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite can only be done by yourself or by close people whose access you have approved.

How to create a private album?

In order to hide folders, photos but also videos, the best solution is therefore undoubtedly the creation of a private album on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite. And to do this, there are several ways to do it.

You can use an app to install on your phone or you can go through Parameters option from your android device. Indeed, the majority of smartphone manufacturers have understood the need for customers to want to protect their media. Therefore, on several versions of Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite, they offer the creation of an automatically integrated secure private album.

In order to find the option that best suits you to hide images or videos on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite, you can read our article on this subject.

How to open a private album on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite?

To open a private album on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite, everything will depend on the version of your Android smartphone et the method you used to lock the album.

Open a confidential album on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite using private mode

Several versions of Android smartphone have a " Private mode“. It allows you to create an album from your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite to hide your photos 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 have to set the private mode and determine a secret code.

To view and open the album you have inserted in private mode on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite, here is the process:

  • Activated private mode.
  • But there are two ways of doing this. The first way is to:
    • Open the notifications menu,
    • Unroll it notifications menu
    • Click on private mode icon 
  • Or the second method is to:
    • Open them Settings
    • Press the button on the Private mode.
  • Enter your private mode code.
  • You will now have the authorization to access the photos and videos put in your private album.

Open a private album on a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite using a secret code

Whether you want to open a private album created by your device or by a third-party application, you will need to fill in the access code that you indicated when creating it. It may be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a pattern, or a password. To open your private album on your Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite, you simply have to go to the album and enter your right pass.

Be careful to remember the access code, because to avoid any intrusion on your precious private files, there are generally no other ways to recover it. Sometimes you can reset it if you provided an email address or attached it to a specific account. In this specific case, when entering your access code, you will then be able to press " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to find it.

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