How To Password Protect a Zip File on macOS

macOS is often used for professional or development use, and with such official and professional use, it is important that users keep their files private and encrypted. The best and easy way to encrypt any file is to password protect it by making a zip archive on MacOS.

Zip file or compression of files plays an important role. Zipping a file makes it easier for us to save the storage room without degrading the stored file’s quality. Nevertheless, zip file needs to be protected with password on macOS to control who can see the file and who cannot, without dwelling about privacy.

With the online world, there is no security that your PC will not be compromised, os it is very important to keep the necessary data in password protect zip files so that your sensitive data remain safe. In the newer version of Mac, it is easy to encrypt the zip file, let’s see how.

How To Password Protect a Zip File on macOS

Before heading towards the main highlight, you need to know how to convert a file into Zip file because receiving or downloading a Zip file from someone else over the internet isn’t safe. Although, there is nothing dangerous about Zip file but might be used for malicious practices. Meanwhile, we are not here to talk about converting a file into a Zip file because it’s a simple process. 

Method 1: Using Disk Utility

After creating a Zip file, you can use the Terminal because Finder doesn’t have an option to protect the Zip file. However, you need to access the Disk Utility first and to do so there are two ways.

The easiest and straightway is press the Command + Backspace on your keyboard. Now, type Disk Utility and press the enter button.

Select the file you wish to encrypt and to do so you need to hover over to file and click on the New Image from the drop-down menu. After that, select the Image from Folder from the following opened menu.