Possible to Password or PIN protect a folder within GraphenOS?

johnsmith

No specific results when conducting a search here. Apologies if a repost.

While likely redundant given the secure nature of GrapheneOS overall, is there a feature to Password or PIN protect a specific folder within the OS?

There are times when I need to show someone my phone or just want to prevent shoulder surfers from glancing at something be it a picture or document.

Making a folder "hidden" might be good enough. Something similar to Googles "Safe Folder" approach here, but for local folders on the device would be great.

https://support.google.com/files/answer/9935264

kracklepop

I think the recommended option is to use separate Android user profiles, but I'm not sure if that will fit your particular use case convenience-wise here.

I don't think that sort of thing exists natively, but a safe folder would be a nice touch.

johnsmith

That is true. Personally I decided to go with 1 profile since things are sandboxed so well. If there isn't a feature I will work around the options I do have.

treequell

What you're looking for doesn't exist natively.

I'd suggest using a secondary user profile or a third party app.

I also recommend reading this section of the FAQs:
https://grapheneos.org/faq#encryption It doesn't answer your question but is useful background reading.

proclaim

You can try with Anemo - https://github.com/2bllw8/anemo , is on F-Droid .

johnsmith

proclaim great recommendation. Anemo works perfectly for this use case. Thank you very much.

kracklepop

proclaim Awesome, thanks for the recommendation!