I am sure many Android users must have started storing their personal media on phone without Any fear of someone discovering them after reading this article of ours.
The free application 'Perfect App Protector ' keeps any application in your android phone password protected. It can protect installed applications as well as native apps such as contacts, messages, file explorer (My Files) etc.
The app also supports password lock as well as pattern lock which seems very convenient for a smartphone.
Steps to Lock Messages in your android phone using password :
- Download Perfect App Protector - FREE from Google play store. Its Free!
- After installing the application, open it and type the default password 7777 to start the application.
- After successful login, your first job is to change the default password. tap 'Settings' on the screen and scroll down to find 'Chang Password', tap to register a new password.
- Tap 'ALL'from the application to see a full list off applications that you can lock. To lock messages, scroll and find Messaging and touch the lock button. You're done.
- From now, whenever you try to open the messages application, the password should be entered to see the texts.
- A normal question that would arise in your mind is "What if someone uninstall the application?". The app developers considered this a s a chance and pre-locked the package installer in android so that no application could not be uninstalled without password. Make sure that Auto start is enabled in settings to restart the lock service when phone is restarted.
