Smartphone users should type this code into their Android or iPhone devices immediately. Delaying could be expensive, and here’s why.
You only have to read the media headlines to appreciate that smartphone users are a prime target for hackers. LinkedIn users have been warned about. But while cybercrime is certainly a major security consideration for all smartphone users, what about the physical threat? What if someone actually stole your phone? What would you do then? After all, it still remains at the heart of your life, it still contains all your data, all your contacts and often all your passwords.
Typing this one code now could save you a lot of hassle should the worst actually happen. Here’s what you need to know.Both Apple and Google already have plenty of safeguards in place to protect against the dangers of a stolen smartphone. For iPhone users,is available for devices running iOS 17.3 or later. Rather obviously, you must enable the feature before your iPhone is nicked if you expect to benefit from the feature. If your iPhone ends up away from your usual, familiar locations, then protections such as biometric requirements for accessing passwords or credit cards, and delays applied to changing passwords kick in. As for Android smartphones, a range of theft protections are also available, including Factory Reset Protection to make it harder for a thief to reset your Google account credentials, an identity check based on location similar to that in iOS and requiring biometric authentication, and anthat shuts down the phone if “motions commonly associated with thefts” are detected such as someone snatching it and running away. But here’s a really simple method that involves a code that any smartphone user can apply to improve their device theft incident response. And, no, I’m not talking about applying a much, although that is highly recommended. Instead, this involves typing ‘star, hash, zero, six, hash’ into your phone dialler keypad and hitting the call button. Don’t worry, there are no charges involved; all this will do is return another code, this time a unique 15-digit one. This is your International Mobile Equipment Identity number and it’s key, pardon the pun, to protecting yourself from an expensive bill if a thief uses your stolen device to make a shedload of international calls or whatever. By providing the IMEI number to your service provider, the phone can be blacklisted immediately and become unusable. Yes, unusable even if the smartphone snatcher inserts a new SIM and factory resets your device. So, what are you waiting for? Dial that code on your smartphone now and write down the IMEI number somewhere safe and secure. Hopefully you’ll never need to use it, but if you do, you can thank me then.
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