
Check out your Notes app: Believe it or not, many people save their passwords on the Notes app.If it happens that your credit card is there, please, remove it.
Check out your Photos gallery: Type “Card” and “Credit card” in the Search Bar of your Photos app. That’s why I use the Outlook app since it lets me block the app with my face so no one can access my Apple ID easily. Protect your email accounts: I love the Mail app, but not on my iPhone. In “Settings” and “Cellular,” make sure you have created a four-digit PIN, so no one can use your SIM after your iPhone is turned off or when it’s inserted in another smartphone. So don’t forget to create a PIN for your SIM. PIN SIM: In Brazil, we discovered that the first thing robbers do is to use your iPhone’s SIM with another phone, as you can learn more here. It happened, but here’s what I’ve done way before something like that happened: Now, I want to share a few precautions before being stolen and what I did next: How to protect your iPhone before being stolenįor many of you, as I thought it was for me, it might be unthinkable that someone will intimidate you with a gun and ask for your unlocked iPhone. Not only does this mean I can safely bring all of my data back, but I can also easily repair the Apple Watch without losing my Cellular data. Alongside that, it’s easier than ever to restore the backup to my old-new iPhone, an XS.
Turns out, this really works in real life, as I still have access to the iPhone’s position even though I factory reset it.Īlthough it’s up to the police to do something, at least I can safely know exactly where the iPhone 12 is, even though I’m not going to do anything all by myself. One of the greatest features available on iOS 15 is the ability to make the iPhone findable even after being turned off or factory reset as long as Activation Lock is enabled. Over the weekend, my iPhone 12 was stolen, but iOS 15 and many other precautions were very helpful and ensured that the situation was not as bad as it could have been. Over the past few weeks, 9to5Mac has been covering how criminals in Brazil are stealing people’s phones and using them to drain user’s savings in just a moment.