Here's How You Can Make Your iPhone More Secure in Just a Few Clicks

PROTECT THAT PRECIOUS INFORMATION

21 March, 2018
Here's How You Can Make Your iPhone More Secure in Just a Few Clicks

​The chances are, your iPhone contains a LOT of important information. And most of this lives in among the 'notes' section. 

Now, I might be just about the least-stealth person in the world with my personal information; but there's pin numbers, passwords, awful features ideas written when drunk, draft attempts at heartfelt messages I never sent​ and a whole lot more in there. Quite frankly, I'd be mortified/terrified if anyone ever gained access to them. 

So I, for one, was chuffed to hear about the new iOS update. iOS 9.3, despite a few teething problems involving faulty Safari links, contains a REALLY bloody useful function: the ability to lock individual notes. 

Why was this never thought of before?? It's like a diary on-the-go, so that information is MORE than classified.

So here's how you do it:

  • Download the iOS 9.3 update (providing you've got the storage space, that is. If you don't, here's how to get some more without deleting every photo you ever took).
  • Go into settings
  • Click 'notes'
  • Enter your chosen password, or opt to only open notes using Touch ID so only your fingerprint can get into them
  • Click into the individual note you want to lock
  • Click 'menu' (the box with the arrow pointing upwards)
  • Click 'lock note'
  • Go back into the note and tap the padlock icon, making sure it's no longer open, but closed instead.

And there you have it, your private notes will remain for your eyes only. Thank Christ for that.

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Credit: Cosmopolitan
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