Phones also need high
security, and this is because you go everywhere with your phone with you, this
piece of iron in your pocket knows everything about you and its information is
documented in pictures as well, so kind of once your phone is lost or stolen
you will find yourself in hell because of the data on Your lost phone, and your
least misfortune at that time will be the loss of the phone and its financial
value, as your phone contains your personal and family photos, as well as
financial information and credit card information... and everything, which we
will provide a guide to fully securing your Android phone.
Turn on two-step verification on your Google account
A well-protected Android
phone is that phone that is linked to a well-protected Google account. Do not
forget that Android is completely dependent on Google, especially since it is
its operating system. A Google account or a Gmail account contains all your
data and also syncs it between your devices, which is great.
But it wouldn't be great if you lost your
phone, would it? As whoever finds the phone then can ruin your life on your
lost phone as well as the devices connected to the same account, and in order
to avoid all this we will start the two-step verification feature to secure the
Android phone more, and to do that head to the Enable Two-Factor Authentication
feature, which is the two-step verification feature.
You can choose more than
one method of two-step verification, and if you do not know, the two-step
verification feature is that which prevents the use of the account without
verifying your identity, meaning that if you log in using your password and
e-mail, it will not enter you directly and will ask you to verify, and this
verification is done either Through a text message that contains a code and is
sent to your phone or through a Key Bundle, you can purchase it and Google
verifies your identity through it.
In order to find the
Google 2FA -- Two Factor Authentication settings, go to My Account and then
2-Step Verification, Google will ask you to log in and then start turning on
this feature, but seriously, if you haven't done it, activate it immediately
when It is important, you can also perform a security check through Google,
which will show you whether your account needs to modify any security settings,
and also allows you to cancel your login from certain devices, and all this you
find on the same page.
Use a secure lock screen to protect your Android phone
Of course, you should use a lock screen, we know that most users do, but the surprising thing is that some of them do not, which is strange, and that lock screen is the first thing that you encounter as soon as you press the Power button on your phone, and in the old days lock screens were It depends on the pattern or pin, but now all phones support the fingerprint, which is definitely great.
The
way to operate the lock screen is simpler than we imagine, go to settings and
then security and privacy settings and from there you will find the lock screen
settings. Through them, you can set the lock screen as you want, as well as
through the same menu in your phone settings you can control more things
including which notifications appear while the lock screen is on, etc.
Now
most Android phones support Face Recognition technology, but here you have to
know that this technology depends on the front camera only in most phones
running the Android operating system, so it is easy to deceive, if your phone
contains very important information, it is not recommended Absolutely use it
Activate the phone locator feature
Perhaps
the experience of losing or losing your phone is the worst experience you can
go through, so you should rely on an effective way to be able to return your
phone if it was stolen or at least tracked, and the most important feature here
is Find My Phone from Google, and it can be activated Simply by going to Settings,
then Google, then Security settings, and finally Find My Phone settings. You
can also search for these settings directly by searching within the settings.
Once
your phone is lost, open the browser and then enter Find My Phone, and from
there you will be able to know the location of your phone and track it, but of
course the GPS and Location settings must be enabled, so make sure to activate
them always.
Some Ways to Locate My Stolen or Lost Android
Prevent your Android phone from installing unknown apps
If
you are one of those who mess with their phones a lot, you have certainly done
the Install Unknown Apps feature, which is the feature that allows you to
install applications outside of Google Play, and although this feature has
become more secure starting from Android Oreo, it is still dangerous and you
must close it.
In order to activate it,
go to Settings, then Security settings, and turn off the Unknown Sources
feature. This is through Android versions older than Android 8. On Android 8
and Android 9, go to Settings, Applications, then Special Access, and from
there turn off This feature, this is because Android 8 differs in that it gives
permission to certain apps to install other third-party apps, not the phone as
a whole.
If you are messing
around a lot on your phone, you may have also activated the Developer Mode for
any reason. In this case, and if you do not rely on this mode for anything
important, go to the settings and then Developer Option and turn off its work.
Do you need to use antivirus apps on Android?
Here are article ends,
and certainly, the ways to protect and secure phones are much more, but the
above was only the basics, in addition to a feature that all Android users get,
such as Google Play Protect, which periodically checks the device and checks
applications and makes sure that everything is fine,