Our mobiles are an increasingly valuable source of information, practically from them is how we inform ourselves of everything that happens around us, and also the information we generate is stored in its storage. And to improve the protection of these valuable data we can block access to the apps of our Xiaomi mobile with additional security .
It is about protecting the applications with our biometric data, such as the fingerprint, or even with a PIN or pattern, and we do not mean a third-party app, but a native setting of MIUI , so all users of Xiaomi can access it.
How to protect these apps?
Without a doubt, it is the best way to prevent someone from accessing our apps without our consent . Who knows if you do not have your phone protected if when you are not in front of it someone can enter to “gossip” what is on it.
Well, to avoid it, what we must do is activate a MIUI function called ” Application Blocking ” and which, as its name suggests, allows us to block access to an application for those people who do not have their credentials.
How is this functionality activated?
It is very simple, because it is a native MIUI setting dedicated to blocking apps that we do not want anyone to access unless they have our approval. To activate it we must do the following:
- Enter the MIUI settings
- Slide the screen to access “Application Lock”
- Create a pattern to block access to this option to third parties
- Now select the apps you want to block in this way
Once we choose it MIUI asks us to create a PIN or pattern to protect these apps that we have chosen. Once the apps have been designated, they become completely blocked for third parties. Because every time they are run on our Xiaomi mobile, the pattern or fingerprint configured in the terminal will be asked to access it.
In this way we guarantee that all those people who are not trusted and to whom we have not given credentials to access the mobile, will not do so in any way. Best of all, it is not a third-party app lock, but it is the Xiaomi layer itself that blocks the apps . Something that saves us a lot of time and prevents us from individually configuring this functionality in each app.