Tips to secure your data on iPhone
As we reply more and more on out phones, nearly all of us stores all our data on the iPhone, including the photos, emails, private information and other files. Lost iPhone not only means that we revealed our private data, but also at the risk of suffering financial loss. Therefore, it’s necessary for us to take some effective measures to secure our data on iPhone.
1. Set a passcode for your iPhone
If you do not want others to access to your iPhone to get your data, you should set a passcode to make sure others cannot access to your iPhone. After you set the passcode, even you lost the iPhone, the thief cannot access your data.
2. Enable the Touch ID
You should use the Touch ID to secure your iPhone. Adding your fingerprint to unlock your iPhone. This is much stronger than the passcode.
3. Enable Find My iPhone feature
Find My iPhone is an important feature in iCloud that help you to locate your iPhone after stolen. As long as your iPhone is connected to Internet and have enough battery, you can locate your iPhone with its built-in GPS on map. If your iPhone is around you, you can make your iPhone sound so that you can find it easily.
4. Avoid to jailbreak your iPhone
Although jailbreaking your iPhone give you great freedom to customize your iPhone. So you can install apps that not supported by Apple. But the jailbreaking can cause many problems. The iOS operating system can prevent you from virus or malware that threaten your iPhone. After jailbreaking, the iPhone will be easy attacked by virus. To secure your iPhone, you should not do that.
5. Encrypt your backup
If you backed up your iPhone to iTunes, the backup is stored on your computer in system drive. Therefore, your backup is possible to be accessed by others. Therefore, you should encrypt your backup in iTunes so that others cannot access your data. You can set a password to encrypt your backup in the iTunes backup page. After you have encrypt the backup, other people who do not your password cannot access to your data.
No matter what are the causes for your data loss, you should retrieve your data as soon as possible. Generally, the most used way is to restore from backups. This is the most direct and effective way. For Apple users, they can choose to restore from iTunes or iCloud. In this way, they can restore the lost files easily without computer and recovery software.
While people always forgot to back up their data in time. Data loss frequently occurs and they have no backup to restore. In that case, the only way is to use a data recovery software to directly restore from iPhone. This does not always work for data overwritten will occurs at any time after data loss. Therefore, whether you can retrieve your files or not depends on whether the deleted data are still stored on the device.
If you are not sure, but have no other way to restore your data, you should try the H Data iPhone recovery software. If you restore in time, generally, you can 100% retrieve your lost data.
Run H Data iPhone recovery software and connect your iPhone to computer until it shows device connected.
Click to scan your iPhone and you can preview all the contents after that.
Export the files which you need. You can find the data you need in the recovery folder.