5anroid setting you shoould to change now!

These setting you must chenge:

1. Opt out of Ads Personalization

I’ll start off with some privacy and security settings because I think those are the most important. The first one will stop Google from using your personal info to advertise to you.

Go to Settings

Google

Ads

Enable the option to “Opt out of Ads Personalization”

You’ll still see ads, but they will no longer target you based on your search history and interests.

2. Change your Phones Lock Speed

Next, you want to go to the security settings. This menu might be named something a little bit different depending on your phone manufacturer and version, but you should be able to figure it out. Once you’re there:

Go to Screen Lock Settings

Gear

Look For The setting for “Power Button Instantly Locks”

Set that to On

ANYWAYS even if you turn off the screen, the phone will not be locked right away, so if someone snatches your phone out of your hand, they can still get in. You may also want to change the “Automatically lock” setting, which makes it so the screen doesn’t lock right away if the screen times out.

I like to keep this on 5 seconds, in case I’m reading something and it turns off too soon. But, I DEFINITELY want it to lock if I actually press the power button myself.

3. Disable Trusted Voice

Here’s Another One for lock screen security. This time you want to:

Go to the actual Google App

Go to the menu

Settings

Voice

OK Google Detection

Disable “Trusted Voice”

This feature makes it so your lock screen can be bypassed if it here’s your voice. But obviously, it’s not perfect and is not secure at all. In fact, I’ve seen it where my phone would unlock when I was talking, and I didn’t even say OK Google! So I wouldn’t trust it at all.

4. Set up Sim Card Lock

Number four is the “Sim Card Lock” setting, which is very important, but not many know about. To enable it, again:

Go to Settings,

Security

Set up Sim Card Lock

But don’t do anything with it just yet before I explain. This setting will protect your sim card, and make it so any time you turn on your phone, you’ll have to type in a PIN. This way, even if someone steals your phone, takes out your sim card, and puts it into another phone, they can’t use it without the pin.

Otherwise, THEY could do things like use your cell data, see your phone number and even make calls from your number, and potentially see billing data. So obviously you want to enable this.

IF YOU HIT ENABLE, it might ask you for your current PIN. If you don’t remember setting it up, don’t guess! You only have three tries. Instead, look to see what your cell phone carrier’s default SIM pin is. For example, AT&T;’s is 1111.

If you get it wrong 3 times, your sim card will be locked, and you will need to go to your cell phone carrier’s website or call them to get what’s called a “PUK Code” to unlock it again.

But if the default Pin doesn’t work, you might need to get that code anyway. But the good news is, when you type in the PUK code, you can now set your own pin. And in any case, this is all good, because after you set your PIN, you don’t want some thief to be able to easily guess your code a bunch of times.

5. Enable Android Device Manager

Ok next up number 5, You want to make sure you can track your phone if it gets stolen, by enabling Android Device Manager. So in the settings:

GO TO GOOGLE

Security

Android Device Manager

Make sure both of these options are enabled to be able to remotely locate and wipe the device if you need to. On newer phones, they should be enabled by default, but you’ll want to double check.

Another place to check is:

Settings

Security (which is not the same security menu you just looked at)

Device Administrators

Make sure “Android Device Manager” is enabled

Now, if your phone is ever lost, you can log into your Google account and use the “Find my phone” feature.