How to protect your smartphone from theft with practical steps?Al -Manar channel website - Lebanon

It is possible for some people to forget their phones, expensive, in cafes or put them in their handbags in a way that is easy to reach, or to steal it.

To protect your phone from thieves, you must take proactive steps, which would ensure that our personal files on the mobile phone if they are stolen.

In this regard, the employee of the German Federal Federal Police Office, Andreas Meyer, approved the German newspaper Welt, that it is necessary to take the necessary measures to protect our personal data, if we lose our phone in some way, and it is necessary to make sure to activate the screen lock option for smart phone users.In addition, the memory card can be encrypted, for phones that work according to the Android system, by activating the safety option in the phone settings.

Moreover, anyone can track his phone if he is stolen.In such cases, the phone can be closed remotely or follows it through both the "Android device manager" or "Find My iPhone" application.On the other hand, this feature can only be used if your phone thief is linked to the Internet.

At the same time, some thieves disable these applications in the form of their presence on the phone.From this standpoint, “Mobil Sicher.de” recommends not to rely on these two applications if your phone is stolen.

Otherwise, experts in this field advise the necessity of changing the password for email and personal accounts, as soon as you lose your mobile phone so that you can protect your personal files.

In fact, you can determine your phone site through the deletion and closure options provided by the Android and iOS operating system, in this framework, Mayer told the German newspaper that it is desirable not to risk and track the stolen phone site without resorting to the police help to help from the policeAnd this official added that "the information related to the stolen phone site could be very useful for the police when searching for it."Accordingly, Mayer pointed out the importance of informing the police when the phone was lost or forgotten.

On the other hand, the international identity of mobile devices (IMEI) is very useful for the police, knowing that this identity is available in all smartphones.Consequently, it is necessary to write down every person who has such phones this information, and keeps them to memorize them in such situations, and these reasons can be found on iPhone devices in "Info" settings.As for the devices that operate through the Android operating system, this identity is returned within the "phone" feature.

Personal data can be protected by keeping them regularly.This can be done automatically for iPhone devices, through the "iCloud" or manually through the "iTunes" program.

Moreover, smartphones that work through the Android system store information through the "iCloud" service, if the user adopts the Google account.Information can also be stored through the "WhatsApp Explorer" program.

In recent years, smart phone traders have been selling these devices attached to their own insurance.In this context, the official in the Consumer Protection Office in the North Rhine-Westphalia city in Germany, Elka Vidapach, said that "this insurance may secure the buyer some of his rights in the event of speeches after the acquisition of the phone, but the financial amount that the affected may be recovered is usually minimal."

It is worth noting that in most cases, the insurance does not include the phone theft.In this context, Vidapach said that "insurance contracts do not include in most cases of mobile phone theft."

In general, a certain percentage of the price of the phone can be retrieved if the whole house is robbed.In this context, Vidbach stated that "the price of the phone can be retrieved through the insurance system for the home."

Source: Huffington Post