How to password protect the WhatsApp photo gallery

For now, the instant messaging application of WhatsApp only offers security in the message sending, preventing third parties from intercepting this information and decrypt it thanks to encryption or encryption of the connections However, what happens when someone physically accesses the terminal ? How to ensure the privacy of content such as shared images and videos? If you want to know how to protect these issues under password keep reading.

For devices iPhone:

In the case of Apple, neither WhatsApp nor the operating system iOS offers a security layer to block selectively access to certain galleries or photos hosted on the reel, therefore it is necessary to make use of others applications that do offer it. One of the most curious and complete is Security Cabinet This tool allows you to create a protected folder where to store all kinds of photos, videos and documents Simply establish a password within the application, being able to choose between a numerical code, a drawing pattern or the joke of fingerprint scanAfter that you have to create the folder to store the contents.

The negative point of this application is that it does not allow applying the password or protection on the folder desired, but you have to import or move the contents that you want to protect to the folder created with Safety Cabinet In addition, it is necessary to make sure that the elements copied, in this case the images and videos from WhatsApp folders, they are manually deleted from their original folder, since there is a good copy collection protected under password. In this way, every time someone wants to access the camera roll to control what content is shared, they will find an empty album, as long as the user remembersdelete pictures and save copy in secret folder Application Safety Locker can be downloaded free from App Store, it also has other interesting functions such as photograph and capture the location of the person trying to access the secret folder, in order to know who and where are checking the user's terminal.

For Android devices:

In this case, users who want to protect the imagesimages and videos stored on their terminal must also use aapplication that offers this security measure that is not granted by WhatsApp or Android One of the best and most complete options is the tool App Lock With it it is extremely easy to create apassword of any type, numeric or in the form of pattern, to protect content more or less specific Thus, just download it free from Google Play and start it to configure said protection with the desired code, also specifying a question of security in case you forget.

After this, a list of functions and applications available to be blocked with said password appears. Here you just have to look for the section gallery and videos, in addition to WhatsApp if you want the protection to be complete. Moving the button to the right of these options applies the lock screenunbreakable unless the password is known The point negative is that they lockall albums in the gallery, it is not possible to specify only the one from WhatsApp However, security is effective, preventing anyone who doesn't know the password from browsing through any album, whether it's photos or videos