For example, your email account is hacked, increases the risk of banking and other sensitive passwords leaking.
The way you can avoid many diseases with minor cleanliness. In the same way, with the help of ‘Cyber Hygiene’ in this digital age, you can avoid any major danger.
Lock your phone with passcode
Now you do not leave the door of your house open in your absence. Not using passcode on the phone is also the same.
The use of four digit passcods and activating the self-distribut feature together is a very safe way. The phone’s data will completely disappear by putting the wrong passcode in your phone repeatedly in the self-distractor feature. It becomes 100 times more difficult to estimate the use of 6 digit passcode. It can be made more difficult by using letters and characters. This option is on both Android and iPhone.
You can activate the iPhone’s self -district feature by going to the Touch ID & Passcode section in user settings. The phone will automatically remove the entire data when putting wrong passcode 10 times. Keep in mind that if you forget the passcode or your child also keeps accidentally punching the number while playing, the data will still be deleted. Android also has such feature.
Use encryption
The good thing with the iPhone is that it runs an encryption in default. This means that the data stored on the phone cannot be extracted. Or it cannot be read on another computer. Until the phone is unblock, the information taken from the phone is scattered and is not readable.
In Android, you have to activate this settings and activate it. Google’s policy mentions providing encryption. But only 2.3 Android devices in the market are running in this version.
Setup device finder
Find My iPhone is not just to find if your phone is not available.
If your device disappears as for some reason, then you will use the Lost mode. By doing this, your phone will be locked with the screen passcode.
This app comes with the iPhone, but you have to setup it before losing your phone. You can find the Find iPhone app in the extra folder. Due to the activation lock, no thief will be able to sell your phone. The phone is not even usable for him. It cannot be activated again without knowing the Apple ID.
If all these tips fail, then you can also delete the data of the phone through your computer. However, doing so will lose all the data.
Absolutely the same option is not in Android phones. But you can also use many third party apps with Google’s Android device manager app.
Backup your phone
If you have to delete the data of the phone from the remote system in compulsion, then making the backup of the phone will prove to be a good habit. By doing this you will not lose photos or any important data.
Keep in mind that you have to install Find My iPhone and Android device manager in advance. You will not be able to do anything after the phone is lost.
Always update software
Software updates always remove the deficiencies that can be taken advantage of and can tamper with your device.
Apple updates on the iPhone are constantly getting updates. However, it is slightly complicated on the Android system. Google updates release for mobile manufacturer companies. After this, these companies decide to reach the updates to the user as per their convenience. But whenever you are asked about the update, you must install it.
