Google Drive is the application to access the storage service that we have at our disposal through our Google account, an application that allows us to download and work with files locally, an ideal functionality when we know that we will not have an internet connection.
Despite all the security that Google offers us in all its services, if we talk about Google Drive, this does not support encrypted files. Fortunately this seems to be about to change as the guys at XDA Developers have seen in the application code.
Google Drive version number 2.20.441.06.40 includes several strings referring to the file encryption, a functionality that will allow users to encrypt Drive files stored on the device as well as download and open other encrypted files stored in the Google cloud.
Let's give some more details about it?# Google will allow to encrypt documents saved on your device (namely documents marked to be available offline)?
Changing these settings will erase all copies already downloaded. https://t.co/tizh8OSser pic.twitter.com/58GJjX7y2q- Alessandro Paluzzi (@ alex193a) November 10, 2020
Shortly after the post published by the guys from XDA Developers, the developer Alessandro Paluzzi has published on twitter various app screenshots Google Drive where this option is shown, an option that we must activate previously.
Once we have activated it, all documents stored on the device will be deleted a small price that we have to pay the first time we activate it. Once activated, all the encrypted documents that we download to our device or that we want to access from the application, will show a small padlock indicating that they are encrypted.
This function still in beta, so it is likely that Google will still take a while to deploy it to all users through an update of the official application. If you want to be among the first to be able to use this function, you should go to APK Mirror to install the latest versions that are available from Google Drive.
