Preventing disaster

[jamacouve]

So someone posted a thread this week about their phone getting stolen and what a mess it will be now with alll their information on it and what a nightmare it will be to recover.

How you do prevent and make sure if this almighty device gets stolen, you'll be okay and protect yourself?

 

[supersunbird]

Have secure lock on phone, not just swipe to unlock (the phones are encrypted, so if they cant unlock it, they cant see whats on it). Install an additional 3rd part find/wipe remotely app.

Make sure whatsapp does frequent backups. I also have a call log and sms backup app that runs once a week and saves it to google drive. Have dropbox automatically back any new photos taken when going on wifi.

 

[backstreetboy]

https://android.com/find

 

[supersunbird]

https://android.com/find

Yeah, thats gonna bring your data and stuff back (aka the real disaster)

 

[backstreetboy]

Yeah, thats gonna bring your data and stuff back (aka the real disaster)

My Xiaomi backs up automatically. Afaik Samsung also debuted something similar last year so the S7 and S8 should have it. Telegram is always backed up. Sms and call logs I couldn't care any less about.

 

[HavocXphere]

The iFruit fingerprinting seems pretty good.

Half the time it doesn't even let me in. :/

6s seems better at recognising me than 7

 

[jamacouve]

I'm coming from iPhone so got backups on iCloud and find my iPhone so can disable it from there I guess

 

[Dairyfarmer]

You have to keep it simple and store as little on the device as possible.

My contacts and email sync with Google (I don't know anyone special so the numbers are useless)
I use Telegram (all cloud based) and do not use "save to gallery"
I don't use my phone for docs, but if I have to they are either on GDrive or in Telegram
I use Nedbank App for banking

So I just have to unpair my phone in Telegram and in Nedbank banking. With Google I can wipe my phone and change passwords. To get everything onto a new phone takes a few minutes and access to a computer.