Our smartphones contain many things now and some data may be sensitive. Be it photos, our text messages, emails, and even passwords and the like specified somewhere on the smartphone. Therefore They have become a favorite target of hackers.
And there are several ways to protect your smartphone. Currently, the democratization of fingerprint readers has made it possible to greatly increase their security, but sometimes this is not enough, the safest way to protect this data is still to encrypt your smartphone.
- Also read: 8 tips to best protect your Android smartphone
Encryption makes it possible to keep your data safe, i.e. in case of loss or theft the person will not be able to access your data even though we have seen certain flaws make it possible to bypass them but now patched. Encryption will generate a key from your PIN, so accessing your data is impossible without your code.
How to enable encryption on your Android smartphone
First of all, before starting the operation you should know that this is irreversible, if one day you do not want your smartphone to be encrypted anymore, you will have to reset it as you were told yesterday. Then encryption might slow down your smartphone a bit too, but it’s a small sacrifice when it comes to keeping your data safe.
you should know Phones released directly under Marshmallow are usually encrypted by default, and should be enabled if that’s not the case or for people who get updates later. Here’s how:
- go to settings
- Then click on “Security”
- From there you will need to hit the “Encrypt phone” option.
You will then receive a message alerting you. encryption can take an hour, then you need to connect your smartphone to a power source. You can also encrypt your SD card, but remember that once encrypted, your SD card can only be read by your smartphone.
- Also read: Do you really need to encrypt your SD card?
And if it gets corrupted, you won’t be able to recover your data on the SD card. If you still want to encrypt, the process is the same as for smartphone encryption.
We hope this little tutorial will be useful to you. And you encrypted your smartphone?
