Getting Started · 3 steps · 2 min read
Set Up HypaVault and Find Your Way Around
A passcode, 12 words on paper, and a quick tour of the five tabs. Everything you need before you add your first file.
Siddharth Pereira
Co-Founder, Product, HypaVault
Siddharth Pereira co-founded the company behind HypaVault and runs its product roadmap. He has spent more than 18 years building digital products, with a focus on product strategy and product management. Here he writes about how phone privacy works in practice: encryption, backups and the settings that matter.
Mobile privacyEncryptionProduct strategy
Posts by Siddharth
- Security
What Is a Duress Passcode, and When Would You Use One?
A lock screen protects you from strangers, not from someone standing over you. Here's what a duress passcode does, where it helps, and where it can backfire.
· 6 min read
- Privacy
Hidden Folder vs Encrypted Vault: What's the Difference?
A hidden folder changes where a file shows up. An encrypted vault changes the file itself. Here's why that matters on iPhone and Android, and what to ask before you trust an app.
· 7 min read
- How-To
How to Back Up a Private Vault You Can Actually Restore
A vault that lives only on your phone is private, but it shouldn't be fragile. Here's how to keep encrypted copies, where to put them, and how to prove they restore.
· 6 min read
Guides by Siddharth
Your Files · 3 steps · 2 min read
Organise Your Vault Like a File Manager
Folders inside folders, views saved per folder, drag and drop, and a search that finds anything by name. Here's how to keep a growing vault tidy.
Staying Private · 2 min read
Lock Down HypaVault on iPhone and Android
Auto-Lock, the privacy cover, screenshots and wrong tries: what keeps the vault covered when you put the phone down, and where its protection ends.
Staying Private · 3 steps · 1 min read
Keep Up to Three Hidden Vaults on One Phone
Up to three vaults on one phone, each behind its own passcode, and nothing in any of them that shows the others exist.
Backups and Phones · 6 steps · 1 min read
Back Up, Restore and Test Your Vault
One encrypted file, checked before it's saved and kept wherever you choose. How to make it, restore from it, and prove it works before you need it.
Backups and Phones · 3 steps · 1 min read
Share a Vault with Someone You Trust
An encrypted copy and a one-time code, sent by different routes. The person who has both opens it as their own vault.
Questions About Siddharth
Who Siddharth is, what they write and how to reach the team.
Siddharth Pereira co-founded the company behind HypaVault and runs its product roadmap. He has spent more than 18 years building digital products.
Phone privacy in practice: encryption, backups and the settings that matter. Everything he has written for HypaVault is listed on this page.
Yes. Siddharth co-founded the company behind HypaVault, Cyberdunes in Mumbai, India, and writes from working on the product every day.
Siddharth has spent more than 18 years building digital products, with a focus on product strategy and product management.
His own website is siddharthpereira.com. Everything he has written for HypaVault is on this page.
Each one names its sources, lists them at the end and follows the process described on the Editorial Policy page.
Write to mail@hypavault.com and a person on the team will answer. Please never send a passcode or recovery phrase, because we can't use them to help and will never ask for them.
No. HypaVault encrypts everything on your phone, and nothing you store ever reaches us, so no one at the company, including its authors, can open your files.
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