Here in this post, you are going to learn How to Password Protect a PDF on Android, iPhone, Chrome & Windows PC using Adobe Acrobat Reader or any other PDF editor application
What are Password Protected PDF files?
Passwords are one of the most basic things you can do to make something on the internet security as possible.
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Using the secure and strong password you can make sure, no one but you and other people with whom you share the password would have access to the content.
PDF is the most popular file extension for text files, especially when you need to share across the internet.
But sometimes you may want to secure them from the prying eyes and encrypt your files so not anyone who can access those will be able to see them.
Encrypting a PDF document by Password is a sure shot way to make sure only the person with whom you share the password will be able to read PDF.
How to Password Protect a PDF in Adobe reader
If you have the Adobe Acrobat PDF reader, here is the process you need to follow-
- First, open the adobe reader on your PC.
- You’ll see the dialog box there choose Open.
- Navigate to the location where your PDF file is located and choose the file.
- Now while the PDF file opened on your Adobe Reader. On the top navigation hover over to View > Tools > Protection > Encrypt and Encrypt with the password.
- There you can set the desired password and make your PDF document protected by a password.
How to Password Protect a PDF file without Acrobat in Windows 10
Adobe Acrobat PDF reader is one of the most popular PDF readers and editing applications available.
It is not only available on the Windows 10 Desktop/Laptop but other platforms such as Mac, Android, iOS, Linux too.
Using Acrobat you can access pretty much every editing feature for the PDFs.
However, for any reason, if you can’t use Adobe Reader or don’t want to use it, still you have lots of other options available for PDF editing.
Here is some other PDF editing software for Windows-
- Wondershare PDFElement
- Foxit PDF Editor
- Nitro Productivity plateform
- PDF-Xchange Editor
- CocoDoc
- OfficeSuite
- PDF Expert
Just choose any of the available PDF Editor software and you can make your PDF document Password protected.
How to Password Protect a PDF in Chrome
Using your Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or any other compatible browser you can make your PDF document password-protected for free.
To do that you have to follow the process below-
- By using your Web browser, head over to – Adobe.Com.
- On that webpage, you will see a big blue button labeled as Select a file. Click on that blue button.
- The file manager will be opened on your Windows/Mac/Linux PC.
- Navigate directly where your PDF file is located.
- Choose the PDF file which you want to make password protected.
- Wait till the file will be uploaded to the Adobe server.
- Once it is uploaded successfully, you will see two fields – Set Password and Confirm password.
- Enter your desired password in both fields and hit on Set Password Button.
- It’ll take a second and the password-protected file will be ready for you to download.
- Click here on the download button to download files on your Desktop/Laptop Computer.
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How to Password Protect a PDF on Android
The Free Adobe Reader for Android doesn’t have the feature to Set passwords on your PDF files.
However, on the Google Play store for Android, there are more than enough PDF editors are available to download for Free.
PDF Utility is one of those Android mobile applications, which you can use to make PDF files password protected.
Here is the process-
- First Download PDF Utility on your Android phone from Google Play Store.
- Now open the PDF utility on your phone.
- Choose the Password Protected option there.
- Choose the PDF file by tapping on the Select File button.
- Insert your Password.
- Now finally Tap on Encrypt File to make your PDF password protected.
How to Password Protect a PDF on iPhone
Same as Android there lots of iOS applications is available to download on your iPhone for Editing PDF files.
To Password Protect a PDF on iPhone, iPad, or any other iOS-based device you can download apps such as PDF Expert to make your PDF files encrypted from iPhone.
