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Misplaced Your Phone? Read This!

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    • Publish Date: Nov 30 2017 4:26PM
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    • Updated Date: Nov 30 2017 4:26PM
Misplaced Your Phone? Read This!

Here are some precautions you can take now in case you lose your phone in the future

Smartphones have become prized possessions for all of us. We spend as much as we can afford on buying these shiny new gadgets once every couple of years. So it’s truly heartbreaking when it gets lost or stolen. Here are a few steps everybody ought to take, so in the unfortunate event that your phone goes missing, you at least have some hope of getting it back.
 
  • Keep note of the IMEI number: IMEI stands for International Mobile Equipment Identity. As the name suggests, an IMEI number is uniquely assigned to every mobile phone sold in the world. It is typically 15 digits long, and can be found behind the box the phone came in. This number is typically also mentioned on the bill of purchase. Alternatively, you can dial *#06* on any phone to obtain it.
    It is important that you keep this number noted down somewhere. In case your phone is lost, you will need to submit it while making a police complaint. If the police is unable to locate your phone, you can give this IMEI number to your telecom operator. Using this number, they can block the phone from being used on their network as well as other networks.
  • Use secure authentication: Using a phone without any kind of authentication means anybody can access your private contents with ease. The most basic form of authentication is a pin code, or a pattern lock on Android phones. Be careful while setting up a pattern lock though; don’t set a pattern that resembles the first letter of your name, which is easy to figure out. If your phone has a fingerprint scanner, set that up with a hard-to-guess password or pin as backup.
    Lastly, avoid using the “Smart Lock” feature on Android, which keeps your phone unlocked at trusted locations or when paired to trusted devices. You’ll be leaving your phone vulnerable if the theft happens when the phone is “smartly unlocked”.
  • Activate phone tracking: Both Android and iPhone have real-time location tracking services built into the OS. Go to “google.com/android/find” or “icloud.com” respectively, and log in with your Google account or Apple ID. From the web interface, you’ll be able to see the last seen location of the device. You can sound an alarm, lock the device and even remotely erase all content from the device. But for all these features to work, the phone needs to be connected to the internet.
  • Anti-theft apps: Cerberus is a popular anti-theft app on the Play Store that goes beyond Google’s barebone offerings. You can prevent the phone from shutting down when locked, so the thief can’t just go off the grid. The app silently sends text messages to numbers you’ve preset upon changing of the SIM card. Cerberus can also stealthily take screenshots, pictures, and even videos from the front camera to identify the culprit. Not just that, it can even record audio from the microphone. You can also trigger all these features by sending a special code via SMS to your own phone. This app is free to try and the licence costs roughly Rs 400.
  • Add an emergency contact: It could be that your misplaced phone is found by a good samaritan who wants to return it. But if your phone is locked, they can’t know who it belongs to easily. If you try swiping on the lockscreen without using any authentication, you’ll typically see an “Emergency Call” button. You can select a few contacts from your phonebook as your emergency contacts.
    On some Android phones, you can go to Settings > Users > Emergency Information to fill it in. On Samsung phones, you’ll need to go to Contacts > Groups > ICE – Emergency Contacts. On iPhone, open the Health app, tap Medical ID and hit Edit. By filling in this information, there’s at least a chance that the person may call up your close ones to let them know of the misplaced phone.
  • Bonus:As they say, opportunity and calamity come without warning. It’s always a good practice to routinely back up content such as photos, videos, contacts, notes, etc — basically things that you can’t download or reinstall again. Apps like Google Photos offer unlimited (but slightly compressed) backup of your media for free.
    Both Google and Apple offer built-in mechanisms to backup all data to their cloud storage. Then there’s the good old way of moving media to a computer using a USB cable.

 

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Himanshi Dhawan Saffron Public School

Quite informative!

Roma Ramcoumar Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

These are really smart ideas !!!

Ujjwal Goel RUKMINI DEVI PUB. SCHOOL(PITAMPURA)

they are good ideas everyone should do

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