In modern reality, a smartphone is practicallyan indispensable thing, especially among the younger generation, who constantly go somewhere, sit on the Internet or often take pictures. And oddly enough, I want to protect my phone from prying eyes, because along with people, indecent habits are growing, like: take someone else's phone without asking, see everything there that you can and throw off to yourself or somewhere. To avoid this, you can put the password on the phone, without which it can not be unlocked.
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If you don’t like this option, becauseyou do not want to constantly enter the password, but you need to protect the photos, then the most ideal option is to put the password on applications with photos, for example, on the standard one - the gallery for Android. But will it help? Let's see how to put a password on the gallery on the "Android".
What is a gallery and how can you get into it?
Gallery is a standard application on smartphones andsimple phones for storing pictures and photos. There are the same applications that can be downloaded from virtual stores (for example, Play Market, AppStore, etc.), but they may have more functions, such as photo editing, applying effects, creating collages, etc. In addition, Photos and pictures can be accessed through the phone’s file managers. They are also standard and there are those that are downloaded from stores.
How on the "Android" put a password on the gallery?
If you want to protect your photoscompletely, you will have to put the password not only on the gallery, but also on all applications that open it, as well as on the file managers of the phone (you can open the photo even through documents if you know how to do it).
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How on the "Android" put a password on the gallery? A lot of advice can be heard about this. Briefly about the main ones:
- first, you can download utilities that make it possible to put a password on separate applications, we will tell about them in the next section of the article;
- secondly, you can protect individual files or folders through a private mode, which is in the settings on the "Android" version 5.0 and higher;
- в-третьих, если у вас версия "Андроид" до 4.0, you can search for such a function: on some phone models it is possible to put a password on the gallery through the device settings or the gallery menu.
Applications on the phone to protect personal data
Решение проблемы, как на "Андроиде" поставить The password for the gallery is quite simple if you have internet (mobile or Wi-Fi) on your phone and virtual shops where you can download the necessary applications. In this case, you can simply type in the search box "password for the gallery" and select from the results.
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Most popular rated downloads on the Google Play Market:
- AppLock.
- CM Security (this application includes antivirus, cleaning up memory from unnecessary data and protecting applications).
- Application security
- Smart AppLock.
These and other applications are designed tohide, set a password both on individual files and on folders and applications. You can download them for free (although there are paid options), they occupy a small amount of memory, while protecting the phone and photos from prying eyes.