The modern world is focused on gadgets and the digital information stored in them. In such realities, protecting your data from prying eyes, fraudsters, and just curious people is more important than ever. Gadget manufacturers are aware of this situation and try in every possible way to protect users’ privacy from people around. A personal album is one of a modern smartphone’s main and important functions. In this article, let’s understand how to create a hidden album on Xiaomi. MIUI allows you to work with both photos and directories, hiding them in secure, encrypted storage, the information from which is impossible to get without the owner’s intervention.
Cómo ocultar fotos en MIUI
Xiaomi shell características incorporadas son suficientes para crear álbumes invisibles y ocultar fotos personales. Toda la funcionalidad está disponible en la galería de valores MIUI.
Añadir fotos a un álbum privado
To hide photos on Xiaomi, you must open the Gallery app and go to the “Photos” tab. Select the file by holding your finger on it. If multiselection is required, then after holding down, you need to mark all the photos that will be hidden in the future after the data will be marked with a blue tick.
After that, an additional panel will appear at the bottom of the screen. It requires you to click on the “En Álbum” button. The user will be offered options on what to do with the marked photos.
Next, you need to select “Private Album”. If cloud data synchronization is disabled on the device, the system will inform the user about it. If there are no plans to upload photos to the cloud, you can cancel the request, and the data will be added to the hidden storage.
Before adding photos to the hidden album, make sure that the user adding files knows the password from the account on the smartphone or will be able to enter the pin code or the secret key, which are entered on the lock screen to unlock the smartphone. Without these data, you won’t be able to access the hidden MIUI album, and it will be extremely difficult to recover the hidden files.
Excluir carpetas de la visibilidad
También quedarán excluidos de la visibilidad los directorios ya creados con imágenes que no hayan sido retiradas de la visibilidad por el momento.
Ve a la pestaña Álbumes. Pulsa prolongadamente para seleccione uno o varios elementos. In the menu that appears, select the option “Hide”. The system will warn you that the hiding is taking place and where it will be possible to find the hidden data.
¿Cómo encontrar un álbum oculto en la galería?
After all these steps, the marked photos and videos are sent to a special, protected area of the device’s memory. Data from this area is not visible to explorers and file managers. It cannot be used when connecting the phone to a PC.
In this regard, users wonder where to find a personal album in the Xiaomi gallery. It is located in the application “Gallery”. To access it, you need the following:
- Open the gallery and go to the section “Albums”.
- Debes tocar el espacio y moverlo hacia abajo sin soltar el dedo.
- A notification will appear saying that the protected storage will be displayed on the device’s screen.
- El siguiente paso será introducir el código de bloqueo de patrón o PIN.
Trabajar con los datos de esta bóveda es igual que siempre. Las fotos se pueden editar, borrar, enviar y obtener su información adicional.
Devolver los archivos ocultos al dominio público
To unlock the hidden album on Xiaomi, you must go to the gallery’s settings. You can find them in the top-right corner. You must click on the triple dot and select “Settings” in the open menu.
In the settings, you will see the “Hidden albums” item of the same name. When you go to it, you will see all the folders that have been moved to the protected area. To return the album to the public gallery, you need to click on “Unhide” opposite the folder of interest. The system will inform you that after removing the directory from the protected zone, it will appear again in the list of all directories in the corresponding tab in the gallery
To extract a file one by one, you open the file in the view mode by clicking on it. Then you need to click the “Move” button and select the folder in which the recovery will be carried out. You can also extract data by multiselection after multiple selections. Go to the option “Move” and select the directory you want to extract.
Después de todas las acciones descritas anteriormente, las fotos volverán a estar disponibles para su visualización e interacción desde la pantalla del teléfono y cuando se conecte a un ordenador personal.
