Ten Ways to Protect Your iPhone from Failing or Become Inaccessible
Securing data is important to prevent it from being accessed by unauthorized
people, as well as intentional destruction. It is important for preventing
accidental deletion, corruption, or infection of information. In one way or
the other, nowadays we store our lives on smartphones.
Therefore, it is
necessary to take security seriously.
The following 10 tips will help protect your iPhone and stop prying eyes from
spying on your sensitive information.
1. Self Destruct
If you seriously want to stop intruders from checking your iPhone data, you can
manage your phone setting in such way that it will delete all data if someone
is trying to break in. Under the Settings option, you can enable the Erase
Data option, which will wipe the phone's data after ten incorrect attempts at
the PIN.
If you have Touch ID enabled then it allows you three attempts at fingerprint
recognition before it will revert back to PIN entry.
The good
news is, you can always recover deleted data from your iPhone (or any iOS
device) if it gets deleted or becomes inaccessible using iPhone data recovery.
2. Pin or Fingerprint Security
We use our smartphone for a number of things, like email, browsing, banking,
and shopping, so it's dangerous to leave your phone unguarded.
Locking the
screen will protect your apps and sensitive data from intruders.
To enable
this, just go to the Settings app on your phone, then select the General tab,
then "Touch ID & passcode lock" from the selected option you will be able to
turn on either Touch ID fingerprint scanning or a numeric PIN.
3. Longer Pass-phrase
The four-digit PIN provides security, but there's a one-in-10,000 chance that
someone will guess it correctly the first time. In order to avoid that, one
can opt for the passphrase option. To use this option, go to Settings app,
then select "Touch ID & Passcode" and turn off "Simple Passcode". This helps
one in creating a more complex and longer passcode with lower and uppercase
letters, symbols, and numbers.
4. Privacy Settings
You have a number of apps installed on the phone and they all can access
various data or features on your phone. Some will use the microphone or the
camera, while some might be able to look at photographs. You must have given
them all permission to do this and that at the time, but it is easy to lose
track. There are also many apps which are no longer in use, and giving access
to those is an unnecessary risk. Thus, go to Settings app, then the Privacy
tab, where you can see which app has which privilege.
While there,
you can turn them on or off.
5. Turning Off Notifications
The feature of viewing a summary of notifications on the lock screen is great,
unless it gives away confidential or personal data that could get you into
trouble. For example, it will show your calendar for the day, the content of
messages you received, and various other personal details.
6. Disable Siri
Siri option can leak data even when your phone is locked, just as was the case
with notifications. An intruder who notices your phone unattended can ask all
type of questions that could reveal important information. In order to avoid
this, go to Settings, then select "Touch ID & passcode", and then set "allow
access when locked" on Siri to "off".
7. Avoid Autofilling
AutoFill is a useful feature which automatically completes familiar text as you
type and remembers important details you often repeat.
Therefore, any
time you're given a text box asking for your name, password, username, or
credit card details, it fills them in for you. This is great, unless your
phone is being used by someone else. Thus, it's better to turn it off. To do
this, go to Settings, then select General, and "Passwords & AutoFill".
8. Using Device Finder
The "Find My iPhone" feature will only help you find your phone in the couch
cushions, but if your device disappears, you can put your phone in Lost Mode
which locks your screen with a passcode. This app comes with iPhones, but one
needs to set it up before the phone is lost. You can look for Find iPhone app
in Extras folder. Activation Lock makes it difficult for thieves to sell
because the device becomes unusable as it can't be reactivated without knowing
its Apple ID.
9. Aiseesoft FoneLab
As the image at the link below above shows, FoneLab can recover deleted photos
from an iPhone. It also helps recover lost contacts, messages, calendars, call
history, notes, reminders, voice memos, Safari bookmarks, voicemail, App data,
WhatsApp data, and more from a broken device. Though it makes no difference
whether your iPhone was broken, lost, wiped, or crashed due to jail-breaking
(or upgrading), FoneLab also helps you restore data from your iTunes backup in
a snapshot, whether the data is under Call Log, Messages, Calendar, Reminder,
Notes, Safari bookmarks, or any other nodes which was deleted before backing up
your device with iTunes.
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10. Software Updates
Software updates might contain fixes to flaws that might give intruders a way
to enter your device. Apple prompts users to get updates and install them only
when asked. In case of information thefts, a precaution is better than a cure!
Author: Abhay Jeet Mishra
August 23 2016
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