How to Keep Your Smartphone Safe

Smartphones have become part of our regular lives. Over 2 million people have them now. We use smartphones to surf the Internet, share photos, check our email, play games, spend countless hours on social media, send text messages both as regular SMS and with special messaging apps, and, from time to time, make phone calls. Apps and public Wi-Fi connections can put our phones and personal information at risk. This is why it is important to keep your phone safe from possible hacker interference.

Entrepreneur gives three pretty simple tips for keeping your phone safe. These are watching which apps you install on your phone, keeping them updated, and not using unknown free Wi-Fi. It all seems pretty straightforward, yet most of us are guilty of downloading a questionable app or using a Wi-Fi network that’s not our own.

Another tip is to keep your mobile devices locked with a pin, code, or finger recognition. While this may be a burden when you want to access your phone quickly and maybe even cause for suspicion from a significant other, it is a good precaution to keep your personal information safe in the event that your phone gets into the wrong hands.

You should also probably not leave your smartphone hanging around on your desk in the office. While you may trust your co-workers, there’s no telling who else might be wandering through and decide to snatch your phone. While many thieves would try to sell the phone, it’s always possible that a “random theft” was planned and someone might be after personal information on your device.

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Sources: PunchNG, Entrepreneur, The Guardian, Copper State Communications