Sunday, May 24, 2015

know These Six Settings to Enhance Your Privacy on an iPhone or iPad


No doubt the iPhone become provide us several services, whether those services offered by Apple itself or by other third parties, but there are many services may be at expense of your privacy, and may be for entertainment, so most users not needed them. On the other hand there are some precautions you have to do. We will know some of them.


Disable Passwords & Autofill in Safari


The empty fields that you have filled in the internet browsers, like your user names, passwords, E-mail ID, and also your credit card information, all these info usually were stored within your browser, -among its benefits in order not to be retype these info again,- thus the accessing to them will be within reach. Safari in your iPhone or iPad has an option to prevent that.

From Setting app move to Safari, then Passwords & Autofill, and turning off all the options in this section.


Use Private Browsing Mode


Safari browsing in iOS devices also includes a Private browsing mode, which empower you to browse your favorite websites, without leaving any trace. Safari in this case, won’t trac pages you are visited, it will disable autofill, and prevents websites from using cookies to track your browsing history. This feature has many advantages, like if you share your iPhone or iPad with other people at home or work, and if you want to open or browse a website with more than one account on the same device, for example if you would to open two Facebook or Twitter accounts.


To get a private browsing on your iPhone, open Safari, at the bottom right corner tap on the "Show Pages" icon. You will then see "Private" at the bottom left corner, tap on it to start a private browsing session, you will notice that the Safaris color turned to black.


Prevent apps to access your microphone


Apple in iOS devices allows third party apps to access your microphone, thus misuse by these app might be probable. If you dont like that, in the sense, you dont want apps listening to your conversations, you can disable this feature on a per-app basis.

To view a list of these app that have access to your microphone. From Settings app head to Privacy section then Microphone.


Enable Find My iPhone


Find My iPhone is the lonely feature, that give you a chance to retrieve your lost or stolen iPhone, as you give you the ability to erase your iPhones data remotely. iOS 7 has come with a new feature to Find My iPhone called "Activation Lock", which prevent anyone else from using your iPhone, so your Apple ID and password are required if a person attempt to turning off Find My iPhone, erasing your device, or reactivate it, to become you iPhone an useless device. This feature significantly contributed to reduction of the iPhones stealing proportion.



To enable Find My iPhone, head to Settings app then from iCloud section toggle Find My iPhone option to on.


Disable Frequent Locations


Frequent Location is an iOS 7 feature, which tracks where and when you go, to provide these location histories to various apps, that interested in this feature, and Apple introduce many services based on your location. For example, the feature will place "Next Destination" information like drive times on your Notification Center.


To turn the Frequent Location off, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Frequent Locations. And if you want to clear out existing history entries scroll down and tap on "Clear History" button.


Create a lock screen passcode


One of the first steps that you have to do when you get an iPhone or iPad, is to create a lock screen passcode, to prevent anyone messing around with it.


To enable Passcode Lock screen or to change it, go to Settings > General > Passcode Lock > Turn Passcode On. You will have the option to make a simple four digit number passcode. But if you want more secure passcode, toggle the "Simple Passcode" option to off, then you will get the ability to type a longer complex passcode.


Enable Touch ID (bonus on iPhone 5s)


Among the salient features that had come with iPhone 5s is the Touch ID, which empower you to open your iPhone by scanning your fingerprint instead of typing an alphanumeric code.

To enable and setup Touch ID, go to Settings > General > Touch ID & Passcode or Passcode & Fingerprint (on iOS 7), and start adding fingerprints.


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