How would you feel if an unknown person gets access to all of your personal and confidential documents on your phone without you even knowing anything about it? Recently mobile hacking has become one of the major issues faced by people.
To take care of such situations, keep and update these 6 settings on your mobile phone.
- Screen lock: Always use a screen lock to protect your smartphone or tablet. If you want, you can secure your smartphone with PIN, pattern and password. You can also use biometric methods like fingerprint and face unlock.
- Lock screen notification: If the phone is locked, it is possible to choose which notifications will appear on the lock screen. If you want to see the notifications of certain apps on the lock screen, you can remove the rest of the notifications from the lock screen. For that you have to go to the app settings of the phone. By searching for specific apps, you can make the necessary changes to that app. However, for this feature to work fully, the phone will need the Android 11 operating system.
- Find My Device: You will also find lost smartphones using Android Device Manager. However, you need to configure it properly to use this feature. For that you have to open Phone Settings> Security> Find My Device. Phone location must be on for this feature to work. Not only that. If you want, you can also give a new password to the lost phone or you can delete all the data of the phone.
- Smart lock : You can use Smart Lock to keep the phone unlocked for a certain period of time. If you are connected to a specific Bluetooth device or are in a specific location, you only need to unlock the phone once using a password or PIN. After that, your phone will not be locked according to the features set on your Smart Lock . However, if you do not use the phone for 4 hours or restart the phone, it will be locked again. Only Android 10 and 11 customers have access to this feature.
- Google Play Protect : If you download any app from the Play Store, Google will test it through Play Protect before installing it. This feature alerts the customer even if a harmful app is installed on the device. Play Protect automatically deletes all harmful apps from the phone. In addition, this feature warns that if an app does not comply with Google's software policy. The customer is also warned if an app silently enables any permission of the phone to grab the customer's personal information.
- Safe browsing : Chrome is the default browser for Android devices. This browser has Safe Browsing mode. If it is enabled, you are warned before logging in to any harmful website. Be sure to enable this feature. To do this, open Google Chrome, select the three dot menu at the top right, and select Settings. Now select the Sync for Google service option.
- Security check up: Regular security checks can also be used to keep your Google account secure. This feature tells you step-by-step how to keep your account secure. Here you can go to ‘Your devices’, ‘Recent security events’, ‘Third-party access’ and ‘Sign-in & recovery’ sections and do a separate security survey. If you show a yellow dot here, you will understand that there is a problem with the security of your account phone. Showing the green sign means there is no negligence in protection
- App permission: This feature allows you to see what third party apps that are behind collecting information from your Google Account. If your account information is shared with an app or service that you haven't used for a long time, stop sharing data with that app or service. As a result, even if the app does not receive your account data, you will need to submit a separate application to delete the old data.