How to Make Your Phone Safer

It’s more important than ever to protect your personal and financial information from hackers and phishing scams. We’ll go over the best ways to make your phone safer.

Install a VPN

Safely browse the internet while on public Wi-Fi with the use of a VPN. We like to use TunnelBear. It’s simple interface allows you to choose which IP location you would like to use with the toggle of a button.

Make Sure You Have a Passcode Set

This may be obvious and you might already have one set up, but make sure that you have a passcode on your phone. If it’s ever lost or stolen this will ensure that any sensitive information on your phone will be protected.

Turn on Find My Phone

With iPhones you can turn on Find My iPhone which will allow you to remotely track your iPhone if it’s ever lost or stolen. Also, and most importantly, if a phone can’t be recovered this feature allows you to wipe the phone completely. If your phone ever gets stolen, this will protect you!

Use Stronger Passwords

After so many breaches, you’d think that people would start using stronger passwords. Unfortunately, we don’t because having too many different passwords can be too difficult to remember. In 2018 it’s important for you to start using unique, strong passwords for each of your many online accounts. We recommend using a password vault app, like LastPass, to generate all of your passwords and keep them safe.

Password vaults will create and then guard and pre-populate the sign-in fields whenever you go to a site that requires you to log in.

Block Spam on Your Phone

Lastly, make your phone safer by using a white pages iPhone caller ID app. These apps run in the background of your phone and will block calls from numbers that have been reported as spam.

Never deal with an annoying telemarketer or potential phone scammer ever again.  There are many different options and some carriers even provide their customers with free spam blocking.