If you want to secure your smartphone, you'll have to do a little more to ask your sister not to play with it. The digital age has brought with it all kinds of problems, one of the most immediate is how lackadaisical most people are with their mobile security, with smartphones being the number one culprit.
Read more if you want to secure your smartphone, iPhone, Nokia, Sony, Nexus and Samsung.
How to secure your smartphone 7 Easy Steps
1. Use the screen lock code
This is a freebie, and you should use it. Your phone is full of personal information such as:
- Emails
- texts
- Photos (yes, these types)
- Personal Notes
If you plan to take your smartphone out of your home, or elsewhere near your parents, siblings, partners, children or others, you should use the lock screen. The most common is a four-digit PIN, but others will allow you to use letters, characters, patterns you draw, and recognition of the digital fingerprint.
If you do not follow this first piece of advice, please don 't bother with the rest that you are not at all serious about trying to secure your smartphone . If anyone can get on it, you will never be safe.
2. Enable the "Do Not Track" feature on mobile devices
This is one of those "well, it would be nice if they did what you requested "scenarios. You can set your browser Google Chrome, and iOS keep Web sites you track and display ads to you. This prevents them from collecting data on you, and we all know that information is power.
The problem is that some sites seem to think it is optional to listen to what you want. So at the end of the day this is a better situation than anything. You can find a backup solution in step 5!
3. Secure your phone number when you call a company
You probably have not thought about it, but companies can get your phone number, and any information relating thereto (see item above), and sell it to advertisers. If turning the lock on and off is a problem, Google Voice is available for Android users to call businesses and block your number.
4. Do not respond to spam texts, emails or answer calls
First step for most telemarketers these days is to call number one, just to see if a person will respond. When you answer a number that seems odd for your area, you're practically asking telemarketers to call you more often, send messages, and try to contact you by other applications.
This can be a major problem for those who do not have unlimited plans or pay as you go. For that, without unlimited plans, you may have to pay for text that you want in the first place. In pay as you go plans, you may wind up having your airtime stolen! What happened to my girlfriend after responding to a spam text as it put a virus on his iPhone that stole the data it paid for.
On Android, try Current Caller ID. On iOS, try using TrueCaller to help you understand what calls you did not expect are legitimate.
5. Use a VPN every time you connect to public Wi-Fi
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A VPN provider can encrypt your connection as you surf, use Skype, and use any application that connects via WiFi as WhatsApp. Most will have a built-in client for smartphones, here are 5 with major customers of the iPhone. They will all keep people from listening to you, and gives you peace of mind every time you connect to WiFi public because it will ensure your smartphone.
6. Use a recovery application to locate a lost smartphone
There are recovery applications for Android and iOS that will help you when setting up your smartphone in another room and forget it, or when you leave it at the office. In the first case, it will trigger a siren so you can find it in your home. In the second, it will use GPS to show you where in the world your smartphone.
When you discover that your phone is somewhere it should not be, due to theft, you can lock it down, or even remotely wipe it. There are some major security applications with recovery functions listed in this article.
7. Add your own contact information to your smartphone
You can secure your smartphone in the hands of a good person if you add your contact information to it . Most people will use a sticker with their name and a contact number. Some will add their email. Anyway, you can get your smartphone back when a good person is, which is most of the time ..
Whatever you do, please do not put the phone number to the smartphone you are trying to protect the sticker. It would be a #fail.
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