We're continuing our one-nan security project. You will certainly have understood this if you are a regular on the site, we want to give you all the means to secure your smartphone. In fact, the personal data it stores are sometimes sensitive and you don't want them to fall into everyone's hands. Therefore, today we have prepared a guide to show you how to lock apps on your nan?
To do this, we will first present to you, why is it interesting to block access to applications on your phone, then two third-party applications that will allow you to lock access to all the applications that you want. So you'll have peace of mind, even if you leave your phone unattended.
What's the point of locking an app on nan?
Although most people set up a password, pattern, or fingerprint to lock their nan's screen, unfortunately it's not necessarily enough. And, whether at work or at home, it may happen that you leave your phone unlocked and that someone around you grabs it and takes advantage of a moment of inattention to rummage through your phone and access to the content of certain applications.
In the event that you take care to block access to certain apps that seem sensitive to you, you will add additional security and whether your nan is unlocked or not, it will be impossible for anyone other than you to have access to your personal data.
How to lock access to one or more applications on nan?
We now move on to the tutorial part of this tutorial, and we reveal two distinct methods to block access to apps from your nan. That said, this function is not natively integrated, except on certain specific apps. But in the majority of cases, you will need to install a dedicated application that will improve the security of your smartphone. We are going to reveal to you the two that we prefer.
Block access to certain applications using SoftWego
First solution, you can use the application of a software suite which is very useful because its applications are very compact, no need to worry about your phone's memory, even if it is very easy toinsert a memory card into a nan. Basically, this is the app Protect your applications , they made it simple but effective, as the name suggests, its only interest is to lock access to your nan's apps with a password. Now all you need to do is:
- Download and install the app
- Open it and give it the required rights
- Choose from the list of applications all those you want to block
- Determine a password for accessing your nan's applications
Lock access to one or more apps on your nan using AppLock
Finally, second solution, which this time is a little more global and will also allow you to protect certain other elements such as functions of writing SMS, calls, uninstalling applications, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth … A really complete application to guarantee you optimal security and to be sure that no one can harm you by wanting to use your nan.
Although it takes a little more space for the memory of your device, it is still an application that will not interfere with the operation of your phone. We recommend it if you need a more user-friendly, customizable, more complete application AppLock is made for you:
- Download and install AppLock on your nah
- Grant the essential rights to the application so that it can function properly
- Define a password or fingerprint as an access key to your locked content
- Define all the content you want to block access in the different categories of the application
If you ever want a lot of tutorials to become a master of nan, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: nan.
