In addition to locking the cellphone screen, one of the ways that you can do to secure your privacy is by locking important applications on your Samsung cellphone .
In this way, you can secure a variety of things, especially content such as photos or videos, and confidential conversations that exist in the messaging application.
To support this, various smartphone vendor vendors have equipped the system and interface of their devices with the App Lock feature .
But of course, each mobile phone vendor developer has a method that can be used differently, because usually the phones carry different interface or operating system versions.
Well, for you Samsung device users, you can also use the App Lock feature for your device. For how, you can listen to a few steps below.
How to Lock Applications on a Samsung Cellphone
- First of all, you can enter Settings on your Samsung device.
- Next, look for the Advanced Features option , then enter the option.
- After being on the Advanced Features page, then select the App Lock option .
- In the App Lock menu, you can activate the slider button in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Automatically, you will be asked to choose the security method that will be used, from the pattern, pin, password, to fingerprint if your device supports the sensor.
- In this case, you can choose one method that you think is right.
- If you have finished setting the security method, then you can choose whatever application you want to lock through the application list at the bottom by activating the slider button .
It should be noted, in this case we are using a Samsung Galaxy S7 device, which may be a difference in the way or feature placement from other types of Samsung phones.
This can happen because of different versions of the Android system or the interface system used. For this, you can further explore your Samsung device if you haven't found the App Lock feature yet.
For consideration, on some Samsung devices, the App Lock menu can be found in the Privacy and Safety section with the name Lock and hide apps . And on some devices, this feature carries the name Lock and mask apps .
