How do I hide private data on my fairphone 5?

Help Fairphone 5
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Does anyone know how to define certain folders or an area on my smartphone as “private” which can’t be read without an additional PIN or password? Thanks for helping!

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Do you think of something like this: Safe Space | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
I’m not aware of something built in…

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I’m using Cryptomator for this and to encrypt my cloud storage:

Works great for me!

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Thanks but I am looking for privacy ON my smartphone not in a cloud. But thank.you anyway!!

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You can also use Cryptomator fully offline and create a vault on your device. That’s what I’m using it for in addition to the cloud stuff but not linked to any cloud whatsoever. :slight_smile:

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isnt the stock android system and google offering via their “files” app an area/feature called “safe folder” which does kind of such stuff. your safety concerns are being taken care of the huge corporations as far as you trust them.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.nbu.files

Protect your files with Safe folder - Files by Google Help

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Also check this feature:

You can then lock someone in the app you want to hand over your phone to. All your data on the internal storage is by default encrypted and protected by your lockscreen. By locking someone in just one app when you hand over your phone, while logged in your account, that person cannot snoop around.

And as mentioned, the Files app and Photos app have a secure storage option as well.

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This is one possibility.
And there are some other apps, like SSE Encryption.

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In my experience, the cx file explorer file manager is better than google’s

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cxinventor.file.explorer&hl=en

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Thanks, but on my fp5 I cannot define folders as private or secure - neither with the Galerie-App, nor through the file manager… :frowning:

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You certainly can. Why do you say you can’t?

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Because the regular FP5 file explorer does not offer it.
Thanks for your tipps, I was just hoping that I can hide things with the apps which were already on my FP. I have the google-free morena version of the FP5. There might be different apps than on yours.

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The default file browser is from Google and the support article is about just that. I missed the part where you state you have a custom ROM. Maybe you mentioned it. I assumed that you use the default Fairphone ROM. There is by the way also a Murena forum.

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