# Use your Vault on your phone

Create or unlock your Vault in the Drime app on iPhone and Android, set a PIN and fingerprint unlock, choose when it locks, and manage your encrypted files.

Updated: 2026-10-22  
Source: https://drime.cloud/support/mobile/vault-on-your-phone

The **Vault** tab of the Drime app opens your end-to-end encrypted Vault. Your files are decrypted on your phone with your Vault Pass, as on the web.

## Create a vault, or open yours

If you have no vault yet, the **Vault** tab offers **Create a new Vault**. Choose a Vault Pass of at least 8 characters: a gauge shows its strength. Then tap **Create Vault**.

> **Important**
>
> Keep your Vault Pass somewhere safe. Nobody can recover it, Drime included. See [I forgot my Vault Pass](https://drime.cloud/support/vault/forgot-your-vault-pass).

If you already have a vault, created on the web or on another phone, open the **Vault** tab and unlock it with its Vault Pass.

### Several vaults

You can have several vaults, each with its own Vault Pass. Your plan sets how many. To go from one to another, tap **Switch Vault**. To add one, tap **New Vault**.

In a workspace, members open the workspace's vault, and only the workspace owner can create one.

From the vault switcher, you can also rename a vault (up to 60 characters), change its colour, lock it, or delete it once it is empty.

## Unlock faster with a PIN

1. Unlock your vault with its Vault Pass.

   The app then offers to set a **Vault PIN**.

2. Choose a PIN of 4 to 12 digits.

3. To unlock with your fingerprint as well, turn on **Unlock with fingerprint**.

In recent versions of the app, each vault has its own PIN. After 5 wrong PINs, the PIN is removed: unlock with your Vault Pass, then set a new PIN.

## Choose when the vault locks

Your vault locks itself after 15 minutes by default. To change this, go to **Settings** \> **Vault auto-lock**. You can choose 1, 5, 15 or 30 minutes, 1 hour, or never.

## Manage your Vault files

In your vault, you can:

- create folders, add files and photos from your phone, create a text file, scan a document or take a photo;
- open files, edit text files, and use **Open with** to open a file in another app;
- rename, move, download and delete files.

Deleted files go to the **Vault trash**.

## What the app does not do in the Vault

- You cannot share a Vault file or create a link from the app.
- Photos are not backed up to the Vault automatically: automatic photo backup goes to your Drive.
- You cannot upload a whole folder into the Vault.

## If it doesn't work

| What you see | What to do |
| --- | --- |
| The PIN is no longer asked | 5 wrong PINs were typed, so the PIN was removed. Unlock with your Vault Pass, then set a new PIN. |
| You don't see **Create a new Vault** in a workspace | Only the workspace owner creates the workspace's vault. |
| You forgot your Vault Pass | It cannot be recovered. See [I forgot my Vault Pass](https://drime.cloud/support/vault/forgot-your-vault-pass). |

## Next steps

- [What is Vault?](https://drime.cloud/support/vault/what-is-vault)
- [Vault on your computer and phone](https://drime.cloud/support/vault/vault-on-desktop-and-mobile)
- [I forgot my Vault Pass](https://drime.cloud/support/vault/forgot-your-vault-pass)