In modern reality, a smartphone is an almost indispensable thing, especially for the younger generation, who constantly goes somewhere, surfs the Internet or often takes pictures. And oddly enough, I want to protect my phone from prying eyes, because indecent habits grow along with people, like: take someone else's phone without asking, look through everything you can there, and throw it off yourself or somewhere. To prevent this from happening, you can put a password on the phone, without which it cannot be unlocked.

If you don’t like this option, because you don’t want to constantly enter a password, but you need to protect photos, then the most ideal option is to put a password on applications with photos, for example, on the standard one - gallery for Android. But will it help? Let's figure out how to put a password on the gallery on Android.

And how can you get into it?

Gallery is a standard application on smartphones and simple phones for storing pictures and photos. There are similar 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 also have standard ones and there are those that are downloaded from stores.

How to put a password on the gallery on Android?

If you want to protect your photos completely, you will have to put a password not only on the gallery, but also on all applications that open it, as well as on the phone's file managers (photos can be opened even through documents if you know how to do it).

How to put a password on the gallery on Android? A lot of advice can be heard about this. Briefly about the main ones:

• firstly, you can download utilities that make it possible to put a password on individual applications, we will talk about them in the next section of the article;
• secondly, you can protect individual files or folders through the private mode, which is available in the settings on "Androids" version 5.0 and higher;
• thirdly, if you have a version of "Android" before 4.0, then you can look 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

The solution to the problem of how to put a password on the gallery on Android is quite simple if you have Internet (mobile or Wi-Fi) on your phone and virtual stores where you can download the necessary applications. In this case, you can simply type in the search bar "password to the gallery" and choose from the results.

• applock.
• CM Security (this application includes antivirus, memory cleaner and application protection).
• Application protection.
• Smart AppLock.

These and other applications are designed to hide, set a password for both individual files and folders and applications. You can download them for free (although there are paid options), they take up a small amount of memory, while protecting your phone and photos from prying eyes.