How to avoid being secretly tracked via smartphone?

Data device security is always a concern of smartphone users. However, many people do not really understand the process of device security, against electrical monitoring. In this article, we will learn how to prevent tracking on Android and iPhone.

Limit the use of device location feature

Choosing to use the GPS navigation feature on Smartphone is a familiar trick with today's users, with this feature we can easily know our current location as well as use it for many tasks. different. However, abuse and use of this device location feature will inadvertently make your device less secure as well as easily tracked by other applications.

For iPhone devices

Step 1: You visit Settings (Settings) from the Application Menu then press the item General Settings (General).

Here you search and click on the item Restrictions.

Step 2: The system will ask you to do this Enter Password Limit to confirm, then we search and press select function Location Services as shown below.

Step 3 : Here you can click Turn off location services or select the applications that are using location services on the device and press No., to turn off.

For Android devices

You visit Settings (Settings), then search and press to select item Location (Privacy and Safety Location).

Here you can choose to turn off location services, or click on the item Mode (Mode) to choose instead of accuracy, device positioning method to become more secure.

Do not root or jailbreak your device

Rooting an Android device or jailbreaking an iPhone brings strange experiences, but it comes with dozens of risks. Devices after being rooted or jailbroken are very unstable and unsafe, easy for others to secretly install unauthorized tracking applications on the device.

However, for proficient users, they can jailbreak or root the device to install applications that simulate fake locations, helping owners "pretend" as if they are in this place but in fact they are somewhere else.

Prevent phone tracking with app permissions

Every time we install new applications on an Android device, the iPhone system often sends notifications asking to confirm the installation, setting up the device, for those applications that do not need GPS features, call , text messages that ask to use these, you should delete them and do not confirm the permissions of the application.

Never share personal accounts

Many people are careless in managing their accounts on smartphones and tablets. This is a fact that is hard to change. In Vietnam, users still use the same Apple ID search with phone shops. Some people "innocently" provide Apple ID search, iCloud accounts to their lovers and do not expect to be tracked through the Find My search iPhone feature.

Not only on iPhone search, Android users should not go easy on their accounts. Gmail is the most precious thing on Android devices because it stores contacts, emails, notes, etc. and is the key to login to photo storage services. If someone else knows your Gmail and password, they can also locate you if you've previously turned on the find your lost device feature.

In addition to keeping personal accounts carefully, users need to limit the use of photo stream features to other devices, such as an iPhone search that can automatically send photos just taken to the photo collection on search. iPad. An Android smartphone automatically syncs photos to Google Photos, and someone who knows the password logs into the service. This is a utility and also a double-edged sword.

Check the list of apps again

Also mentioned above, strange applications on the device are one of the factors that cause your device to be tracked, so to prevent being tracked on the phone we need to check if the device exists. Strange applications, unknown origin or not.

Then please remove this suspicious application of unknown origin from your device, there are many applications that have been infected with malicious code that makes us not even know if it is safe or not, so how remove, delete is absolutely the right thing to do.

Locate by phone number

Currently, quite a lot of people are concerned about being tracked and located through phone numbers easily, but this is completely impossible. Because the way to determine the location by phone number requires permission from the carrier to use. This in turn causes users to lose their personal privacy. So you will be completely assured when you no longer need to worry about this problem anymore.

So we just went to find out how to prevent phone tracking, prevent being located. Hopefully through this article you have also understood the steps to take as well as what to do to prevent being tracked your Android phone, iPhone.

Thanh Hoa(synthetic)