Who has never given his android smartphone to an acquaintance and wished wholeheartedly that the latter does not search the gallery and find photos or personal videos? While you are prepared to show some data, others are meant to be kept confidential in order to protect your private life. Therefore, to do this, you must be vigilant in protecting your media. The most obvious option turns out to be to create a private album. However, knowing how to use it is not necessarily easy. We will now see in this article how to open a private album on a Xiaomi Redmi Note 7. First, we'll find out why to use a confidential album. In a second step we will see the different possibilities to open a private album on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7.
Why use a private album on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7?
What is a private album for on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7?
You do not share all of your confidential information with just any individual, and the same spirit of confidentiality should also apply to things on your Android, including your images and videos. Especially since none of us is in any way immune to the theft of our personal belongings or an ill-intentioned intrusion which can put our private life at risk. And without imagining the worst, it may happen that you lend your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 to a trusted individual with no assurance that they will not explore the contents of your device.
Therefore, it is your duty to maintain the confidentiality of your information. And to do this, the best option will be create a private album on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 which will allow you to place your files, snapshots and videos in a place hidden from prying eyes. This private album can be secured by a number of means (secure platform, hidden in your smartphone, by adding a password or also by a biometric lock, etc.). In this way, opening a private album on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 can only be done by yourself or by people close to whom you have accepted the accessibility of the album.
How to create a private album?
If you want to hide documents, snapshots or videos, the best solution will therefore be to create a private album on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7. There are several ways to do this.
You can use an app to install via Google Play Store or it is possible to go through the settings menu from your android phone. Indeed, many smartphone manufacturers have grasped the usefulness for users to want to put their files in a safe place. In this way, on several versions of Xiaomi Redmi Note 7, they offer the possibility of creating an automatically integrated secure private album.
If you want to choose the solution that best suits you to hide pictures or videos on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7, we recommend that you read our article on this subject.
How to open a private album on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7?
To open a private album on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7, everything will depend on the version that is installed on your Android device et how you proceeded to lock the album.
Open a private album on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 using a private mode
A number of Android smartphone versions feature a " Private mode". Thanks to it, you can create an album through your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 to hide your images and videos. This way when this private mode is not activated on your smartphone, the album is hidden. In order for this mode to work, you must first set up private mode and set up an access code.
To discover and open the album you have registered in private mode on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7, here is the maneuver:
- Activate private mode.
- To achieve this two possibilities are available to you. The first way to do this is to:
- Go to the notifications menu,
- Unroll it notifications menu
- Click on private mode icon
- Or the second method is to:
- Open them Settings
- Activate the button on the Private mode.
- Enter your private mode access code.
- You will now have the authorization to access the images and videos put in your private album.
Open a private album on a Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 from a password
Whether it is to open a private album created by your smartphone or by an application downloaded on your phone, you will inevitably have to inform the access code that you administered at the time of its creation. This access code can be a PIN code, a fingerprint, a pattern, or a password. To open your private album on your Xiaomi Redmi Note 7, you simply have to 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 media, in most cases there are no other ways to retrieve it. In some cases, you can reset it if you have specified an email address or if you have attached it to a specific account. In this specific case, when entering your password, you will then find the choice to click on " Forgotten password". It is up to you to follow the instructions to find it.
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