5 expert tips to protect your Android phone

A smartphone is much more than a device with which to send and receive calls. It is a terminal that not only accompanies us during the 24 hours of the day, but also where we store and keep virtually all of our personal information.

Photographs, contacts, passwords, bank accounts, credit cards ... there is little sensitive information on our smartphone, so we cannot take the use of the device lightly, having to take all appropriate safety measures so that no one be ourselves, we can access it.




5 expert tips to protect your Android phone

Smartphone security is a very common concern.

So if you want to have a truly secure smartphone, better pay attention to the Internet User Security Office and follow all the advice they offer us.

1. Secure access to your device

Just like when you leave the house or the car, you lock it so that no one can enter, the same with your smartphone.

The first thing we need to do to protect our mobile device is to have a good password or pattern. Luckily, the most current smartphones have more modern security measures such as fingerprint detectors or facial recognition.

Don't forget to activate this essential security measure in your mobile device settings.

2. Always keep your smartphone up to date

5 expert tips to protect your Android phone

Keep your phone up to date, your internet security will appreciate it

To have a safe smartphone we must always keep it updated. As technology advances by leaps and bounds, malware, hackers, and other malicious elements do the same.

So that all these "new" dangers do not affect us, we must have constantly updated devices, so we always recommend brands that take user safety very seriously, such as Google Apple, Samsung or OnePlus.




3. Download applications from secure and / or official sites

5 expert tips to protect your Android phone

Android malware is becoming more and more prevalent

One of the simplest ways to bypass the security of our smartphone is install apps from strange sites or from little-known developers.

We have always warned of the need for download any application from official sites such as the Android Play Store or the App Store di iOS to avoid unpleasant surprises. Likewise, always check the permissions that these apps require and even so, always avoid installing suspicious applications or applications that use the name of other more popular ones such as WhatsApp.

4. Enable two-step authentication

Sometimes it's not enough to have a good password to protect your device, but you have to add some extra security.

That "something" is called two-step authentication, Also known as authentication a two factors, which is a system that adds an extra layer of security when you log in with your accounts on different Internet services, usually a multi-digit code that is sent to SMS or email.



Double authentication isn't something unique to operating systems like Android, but more and more platforms are adapting it. This is the case with WhatsApp, Twitter and other popular social networks. Our advice? The more places you activate it, the better.

5. Make frequent backups

5 expert tips to protect your Android phone


Frequent Android backup

Why is it important to back up your smartphone frequently? Do you really have to explain it?

As we said earlier on our mobile device, we usually save a lot of information of all kinds and losing them could be a disaster. It may also be that we want to change our mobile phone or, even worse, that it is stolen or stolen from us.

Well, thanks to the backup copies stored in our cloud, we can retrieve all our information quickly and easily as if nothing had happened.

While we can use any cloud service for this, Android normally uses Google Drive by default and iOS iCloud Drive.


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