With Pro, one phone can hold up to three vaults. Each has its own passcode and its own recovery phrase, and nothing in one shows that the others exist. It's a simple way to keep separate parts of your life apart.
Decide What Goes Where
Think of each vault as its own space. Some ideas to choose from:
- Personal: private photos, videos and notes.
- Work: documents, notes and recordings for your job.
- Family: ID scans, insurance and medical records.
- Travel: your passport and travel documents.
How Each Vault Opens
- 1Lock HypaVault.
- 2On the lock screen, type the passcode of the vault you want.
- 3That vault opens. To switch, lock again and type another passcode.
One lock screen opens all of them: the passcode decides which vault opens. There's no vault switcher anywhere, which is part of what keeps the others hidden.
Why the Others Stay Hidden
Inside a vault there's no list, no count, no names and no switcher. The phone always holds four identical-looking key slots, used or not, so even the phone's storage doesn't say how many vaults you have. And the app never says you've used all your vaults.
Search, Photos and Videos only ever show the vault that's open, so nothing from one vault turns up while you're in another.
Look After Each Vault Separately
Each vault gets its own 12-word recovery phrase when it's created. Write each one down, and keep track of which phrase opens which vault. Each vault also backs up to its own .hypa file, so run Back Up Now in every vault.
If you also keep a duress passcode, remember that it erases every other vault on the phone at once. A backup of each vault, with its recovery phrase, is how they come back.
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About the Author
Siddharth Pereira · Co-Founder, Product
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.
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