Do you want to protect your photos and videos from prying eyes? The Gallery Lock app (Russian) will help you with this. In addition to standard data storage under a password, we get many additional features: storing information in cloud storage Google Drive or Dropbox, playing background music when working in the application, taking pictures with the camera when the password is entered incorrectly, and a false error window upon startup.

You can expand the functionality of the program by switching to the PRO version, which costs about three dollars. With it you will have the function of creating a backup zip archive, unlimited synchronization with the “cloud” and the ability to hide the application from the list of programs and then launch it after typing secret code in the phone's dialing menu.

Program features:

  • hiding videos and images;
  • “invisible” mode, hiding the application launcher icon;
  • background playback of selected musical compositions;
  • support for slide show mode;
  • blocking with a PIN code or graphic key;
  • false error message;
  • data synchronization in cloud storage Google Drive or Dropbox.

Working principle:

Once you start working with the application, it is recommended to change standard password(7777) and enter the address email to recover your password. To do this, click on the “Settings” menu at the bottom of the screen, go to the “Password” menu, where, in turn, click “Change password”, and you will also enter your e-mail.

To hide files, go to any folder and click “Add photo/video” at the bottom of the screen. If you delete the application, you must restore all hidden data, otherwise it will be lost.

Pros:

  • convenient customizable interface;
  • there are no time restrictions on the free Lite version of the Gallery Lock application (Russian);
  • Possibility of password recovery.

Cons:

  • presence of an advertising banner;
  • confusing settings menu.

Gallery Lock (Russian) for Android beautiful design interface and wide range additional features. It’s just not entirely clear why they made restrictions on working with cloud storage if the space provided does not belong to the program manufacturer.

Analogues:

If you need more options for blocking the launch of your applications, you can use the Perfect App Protector program (Russian), which was created by the same developer.

In modern reality, a smartphone is an almost irreplaceable thing, especially among the younger generation, who constantly goes somewhere, surfs the Internet or often takes photographs. And oddly enough, I want to protect my phone from prying eyes, because along with people, indecent habits grow, such as: taking someone else’s phone without asking, looking through everything there is that you can, and throwing it off to yourself or somewhere. To prevent this from happening, you can put a password on your phone, without which it will not be possible to unlock it.

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

and how can you get into it?

Gallery - standard application on smartphones and simple phones for storing pictures and photographs. 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 file managers phone. They are also standard and there are those that are downloaded from stores.

How to set a password for 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 even be opened through documents, if you know how to do this).

How to set a password for the gallery on Android? You can hear a lot of advice on this matter. Briefly about the main ones:

  • firstly, you can download utilities that make it possible to set a password for individual applications; we will talk about them in the next section of the article;
  • secondly, you can protect separate files or folders through private mode, which is in the settings on Android versions 5.0 and higher;
  • thirdly, if you have a version of Android up to 4.0, then you can look for this function: on some phone models it is possible to set a password for the gallery through the device settings or the gallery menu.

Phone applications 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 on your phone (mobile or Wi-Fi) and virtual stores where you can download required applications. In this case, you can simply type “gallery password” in the search bar and select from the results.

  • AppLock.
  • CM Security (this application includes an antivirus, memory cleaning from unnecessary data and application protection).
  • Application protection.
  • Smart AppLock.

These and other applications are designed to hide and set passwords both for individual files and for 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.

★ Times magazine named this program "app of the year"! ★

Hide images and videos! (for security reasons)
The Gallery Lock app allows you to manage your images and videos by hiding each one. If you need to protect your confidential data, you can't do without this application. The program is one of the most popular in the world, and is also among the top ten in terms of sales on Google Market.

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Functions
Hiding photos and images.
Folder support.
Great design.
Supports invisible mode (allows you to hide the application launcher icon).
Transfer images from Gallery Lock to any application.
Functions for rotating and scaling images.
Slideshow support.
Support background playback of Mp3 music during slideshow.
Various viewing modes.
The multi-select feature allows you to quickly hide, show, or share multiple images at once.
Convenient access by PIN code or gesture

# (Attention!) Before deleting Lite version, turn off hiding photos and images. If you uninstall the program without turning off this feature, or restore the device to factory settings, your photos and images will be lost.

# When you make your first transaction on Google Market using credit card, Google company In order to verify the card data, 1 US dollar is deducted from it. It may seem that in this case money is withdrawn from the card twice, but this is not the case: the verification transaction will not be taken into account in the final transaction for the month.

# Stealth mode requires permission to make outgoing calls.

# A way to restore photos if problems occur.
If for some reason the Gallery Lock application does not launch, you can restore it using the method described below.
1) Uninstall Gallery Lock app.
2) Download Gallery Lock from Play Market and install it.
3) Open the Gallery Lock app settings and tap the Find/Recover Missing files menu item.
4) Missing files will be recovered in the /mnt/sdcard/DCIM/recover folder.
5) Launch the Gallery program on your device and make sure that the files are indeed restored.

# If Stealth Mode doesn't work suddenly, Install apk of link below and tap Stealth Mode Enabler icon and try to call *+pin
http://bit.ly/2eRp2wZ

** This app uses the Device Administrator permission.