5 smartphone tips for more security

Jun 16

5 smartphone tips below can help your phone so much more secure. Nowadays, our lives depend a lot on smartphones. And in a blink, our information on these phones can be hacked. So, those tips can help you protect your phones.

1. Set password

The first step to make your phone more secure, you should set a pin or password. There are several types of lock screen like pattern lock, PIN lock, password lock….And you need to come up with a truly safe password. Don’t use something like a consecutive number or your birthday. The Apple phone even let you set the passcode with the time you see. However, it’s not so secure. If you have an Android phone with Android 5.0 (Lolipop) OS, you can use the feature called on-body detection. This feature keeps your phone unlocked while you’re carrying it, then automatically locks it when you set the phone down.

2. Only install apps from reliable stores

Hackers can use apps having viruses to infect your smartphone and steal your data. They even hack to your contacts to spam those people and infect their devices. You can prevent these things by installing apps from the trusted stores like Google Play, Apple iTunes, Microsoft’s Windows Store or Amazon Appstore. However, the app from those stores is not 100% safe. So make sure that you check reviews and ratings and read the app’s privacy policy carefully. You need to know what information the app will get from your phone and what will it do with them.

3. Be careful with public Wifi networks

If you are in a habit of using free public Wifi, you should be careful with this. Black hackers can intrude to these networks and steal your sensitive or private information like bank accounts or your social network accounts. If you need to do banking or shopping by smartphone, you ought not to do these transactions while you use public Wifi. Do it at home! And after your transactions are completed, just log out of those sites.

4. Enable remote location

If you unluckily lost your phone, tracking apps can help you to locate the position of your phone. Tracking apps like Find My iPhone, Android Device Manager will report the recent location of the handset, the latest time when it was online. And if you can not find your phone, you can at least protect your sensitive information by erasing them. With those apps above, you can wipe all the data remotely.

5. Back up your data

One biggest problem you have to deal with when you lost your phone is the loss of data. This is a trouble when all your work schedules, vital plans, important meetings, project deadlines, photos etc are gone forever. And it’s really inconvenient if you have to time after time copy your data to PC or any storage device. So it’ll be much easier to backup your data through the cloud.