5 features to help use iPhone more safely

Apple has built quite a few security features into the iPhone to protect your personal data. With the new year upon us, it might be worth taking a look at what your ‌iPhone‌ can do and the options you can enable to protect yourself.

Lockdown Mode

There are many malwares used by hackers. Therefore, Apple has developed Lockdown Mode to combat these softwares, especially NSO's Pegasus software. Lockdown Mode gives users the highest level of data security, very suitable for politicians , journalists, and officials.

The operating mechanism of Lockdown Mode is to limit features that are frequently used by users such as: Web browsing, messaging so that malware cannot attack.

To enable this important iPhone security feature, simply go to “Settings”, select “Privacy & Security”, select “Lockdown Mode” and turn the switch on. Not everyone is a target of hackers, but you should still try this feature.

Quick Security Response

Not only iPadOS, macOS, iOS now also has the “rapid security response” feature. With this feature, Apple quickly detects security errors, patches them and releases the latest updates to users. Notably, users do not need to interact or restart the device.

To enable this feature, you just need to open the “Settings” application, select “General Settings”, select “Software Update”, select “Automatic Updates”. Even when this feature is turned off, some files in the system are still automatically updated.

Secure and encrypt notes

The third important security feature of the iPhone is “note security and encryption”. The security or locking feature in Notes has been around for a long time, but this is a feature that is of great importance to many people.

With this feature, users can lock notes that are considered important using Face ID, password or Touch ID.

The fastest way to secure notes is to go into the "Notes" application, press and hold the folder you want to lock, select "Lock Note" and you're done.

Passkeys Security

First appeared on iOS 16 and used by Apple instead of passwords. This is a feature that Apple cooperated with Microsoft, Google and met FIDO standards.

Setting up Passkeys is simple. Users just need to register through the application or website that uses Passkey. A window will appear and ask you to save the password. When returning to the website or application to log in, users just need to enter the password or authenticate with Touch ID or Face ID.

Passkeys data is synced via iCloud Keychain and available to all devices in the Apple ecosystem.

Safety Check

A new but very important security feature on the iPhone is Safety Check. With this feature, users can quickly see the contact information that has access to the calendar or location of the phone. In addition, Safety Check also displays the permissions used by all applications on the device.