Android safe – take care of it yourself before it’s too late – PC World

 

Each of the owners of smartphones / tablets running the Android or iOS, you may encounter on your way thief who deprive him of his beloved gadget with a view to its sale or confidential data mining. To better protect yourself from this type of situation should think in advance about the use of different solutions, which will be a firewall to prevent unauthorized access to our beloved gadget and help us locate him.

1. Security Code

We’ll start with the simplest solution in the form of a security code to access our smartphone / tablet, which many of us did not use. Recently, there are also new technologies in the form of fingerprint readers. The best of them is the Touch ID for the part of Apple devices that allows you to unlock your phone without having to enter the code every time. But remember you have configured it using the Setup Assistant iOS, or when you go to Settings, and then touch the ID and code.

In the case of such termination without proceed as follows:

Android Settings & gt; Security & gt; Lock Screen (security code, design, slogan and face recognition)

iOS: Settings & gt; Touch ID and code, or Settings & gt; Code

2. Make sure that the Find My iPhone / iPad and Android Device Manager function

The Find My iPhone / iPad and Android Device Manager help search for and protect the device (including the ability to remotely wipe all personal information) in case of loss or theft. None of these services, however, will not help us if it is configured on our gadget.

Android before you start to use Android Device Manager, you must enable it on the device and linked to your Google account . About how to do this, read here.

iOS: about how to set up Find My iPhone app can read here.

3. Blocking asleep almost immediately after the

Our beloved gadgets can be set to automatic phone lock code is not requiring a mainstream immediately after the sacrifice, but eg. after 30 minutes. While in the case of the tablet, which usually keep in your home does not have a problem with it, whereas in the case of accompanying us everywhere smartphone is a different matter.

It is safest to block the automatic start it immediately after anesthesia. It seems, however, that because of the convenience, you can go here for a small concession. We should not, however, exceed the limit of a few dozen seconds.

Android Settings & gt; Security & gt; Block automatically. Then we get to choose from a variety of options. We start from “immediately” and then go through the time settings from 5 seconds to 30 minutes.

iOS: Settings & gt; lock code (iOS 7.0.6 or earlier settings These are shown in the Settings & gt; General) & gt; The code required. The default setting is “immediately,” but you can also select from the appropriate interval.

4. Blocking access Control Center [iOS]

Starting with iOS 7 for both iPhones and iPads as provide access to the Control Center, which for via a pop-up window allows quick access among to enable or disable Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a Do Not Disturb mode media settings. With this solution, we can also benefit from the locked screen. This in turn allows a person having bad intentions, eg. Set Do Not Disturb mode, if the aircraft without the need for driving code, which means that the tool Find My iPhone will become useless.

Control Center is a very handy addition. Taking care of the safety we should not give up access to it from the locked screen: Settings & gt; Control Center & gt; a locked screen (block such access).