🚨 Smartphone Users Alert! 🚨
Finance expert Martin Lewis is sounding the alarm for all iPhone and Android users—make this crucial security update now to protect your data from thieves! 📱🔒
Here’s what to do:
1. **Switch on Biometrics**: Ensure your phone, banking app, and other key apps require a fingerprint or face ID for extra security.
2. **Disable Preview Notifications**: Turn off preview notifications to stop sensitive info like text codes from displaying on your lock screen. 📵
3. **Use *#06#**: Type this code into your dialler to get your IMEI number, screenshot it, and keep it safe. If your phone gets stolen, the police can use this number to block it on all networks. 🚫
4. **Remote Tracking Apps**: Install apps like “Find My Device” for iPhones or “Smart Things” for Android to track your phone and suspend payments remotely.
5. **Be Aware of Shoulder Surfing**: Avoid entering pins where others can see, and always keep your phone in your pocket, securely fastened with headphones. 🎧
These simple changes can stop thieves from accessing your phone and bank accounts. According to recent data, mobile phone theft is on the rise, especially in larger cities like London. In one case, a single operation smuggled 40,000 stolen phones from the UK to China last year!
Let’s protect ourselves and our phones. Make these changes today and stay one step ahead of the thieves! 🚀🔐
Share this info with friends and family. Together, we can minimise the risk! 🙌✨
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