Here's How To Save Important Photos Or Videos On Your Phone

Cell phone illustration (Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - Many smartphone users often save personal photo and video files on their smartphones. In fact, this is something that is quite high risk, because such files have the potential to leak in various ways.

Reflecting on the case of Gisel, who deleted his nasty video, before the cellphone was lost. This means that deleted data will still be stored on the phone's internal memory.

According to cybersecurity observer from Vaksincom, Alfons Tanujaya, the data that has been deleted is actually not permanently deleted. Even though the user has pressed the 'delete' button on the cellphone.

The reason is because after any photo or video is deleted, the data file is not completely lost from the internal memory location. Simply put, that memory data will just be rewritten to make space for new files.

"The stored data can still be displayed again using a data recovery program. If there are still a lot of memory cards left, the success rate for data recovery can be very high," Alfons told VOI some time ago.

So that these privacy files and data can no longer be displayed, users need to take some additional steps. Several ways include resetting the factory settings or erasing all data completely from the cellphone.

If you feel your data is very important and don't want to be deleted immediately. It's a good idea to encrypt your cellphone's memory storage first, before finally clearing the contents of your cellphone memory.

The option to encrypt storage is already in every default Android. Some Android smartphones are in the settings menu, security, and some are in settings, storage.

There you will find the Phone storage encryption or Encrypt SD Card content menu. If we activate this menu, you will be asked to create a pin or password to be able to access our data storage.

For some people, these methods may be a little inconvenient. But if you do store important data or files that are privacy in nature on your cellphone, it's a good idea to take these steps.