Want to hide out private photos and videos on Huawei mobile phone? If you have saved some saucy snaps on the phone, you may want to hide them out so as to prevent other people from accessing them when they use your phone. On Huawei phones, we can find the App locker which serves as a great tool to protect our privacy. Check out this guide to lock apps on Huawei mobile phone. If you have some secret photos, videos on the phone, you can turn on the app lock and lock the Gallery app, where all your photos and videos are saved, with a password on your Huawei phone.
Huawei phone photo locker flaws
Unfortunately, we found this built-in security option for hiding photos is not really secure. Third-party apps on the phone may still access the photos and videos without the password. For example, you can access them using Google Photos, Files, and maybe more third-party photo apps, file managers, browsers, etc.
Huawei phone File safe – the better solution
There is another feature on Huawei phone was designed to encrypt our private files and documents called ‘File safe’. Go to Settings > Security & privacy > File safe. Then tap on Enable to set the password which we need to use to lock the files on Huawei phone.
You can choose to associate fingerprint to quickly access the File safe and files saved in it. You can also associate your Huawei ID so you can reset your password if you forget it and can’t remember your security question answers.
Go to add your photos, videos, music and other files to the File Safe to encrypt them and protect your privacy.