This way you can prevent them from turning off your cell phone in case of theft

It is becoming increasingly difficult to walk calmly through the streets with the phone in hand.

For this reason, the latest versions of Android (11.0 and later) offer a new option that is easy to apply when track the mobile after a robbery.

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This option needs to be activated in the setting of your Android phone manually. You must enter the settings, select the ‘Lock screen’ option, go to ‘Secure lock setting‘ and enter an access PIN that you must create and remember.

Do not forget Activate ‘Lock with side key’ and ‘Lock network and security’ before finishing the process.

Enter the settings section of your Android phone. (Screenshot/)

After this, you can review the operation by trying to turn off your cell phone (removing the ‘Trusted places’ option), at which point you must enter the PIN that you created earlier.

Thus, when someone wants to turn off their phone, they will always be asked for that PIN: the thieves they won’t be able to do it easily.

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In case your phone is stolen, you must log in from another device to your account. gmailto the link where your paired devices are registered.

There you need to select the ‘Search device’ option. When the map indicates that you are close to your cell phone, press ‘Play sound’. At that time, the device will emit a loud sound for five minutes, so that you can identify exactly where your mobile is.

Press the option of ‘Secure lock setting’ and then activate ‘Lock with side key’ and ‘Lock network and security’. (Screenshot/)

The latest version of Android also offers other advances in Privacy & Security. For example, depending on the operating system, it will give permissions to applications that need to use the microphone, camera or location only once.

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Also, it will clear the data in the apps that are not used frequently. You also receive security and privacy fixes directly from GooglePlay.

Finally, you’ll carefully control which apps can access the phone’s location when they’re not running or being developed on background.

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Source: Elcomercio