Avoid These 7 iPhone Setting Mistakes That Could Compromise Your Privacy and Security

You Don’t Have Find My iPhone Turned On 

If your iPhone is stolen, turning on Find My iPhone keeps anyone from activating or using your iPhone. It’s a simple setting feature that you can turn on right now to make a big difference. 

You Aren’t Using Two-Factor Authentication 

Two-factor authentication is a security setting that prompts apps to ask you for your password and an additional passcode that they send to your email or phone as an added layer of security. But the setting is only useful if you are actually turning it on and using it. 

You Aren’t Controlling How Apps Track You 

If you allow some apps to do so, they will track every little thing about you, from your contacts to what you search online. It’s important to go into the settings of the apps you frequently use and find out what kind of information they track. From there, take control by enabling or disabling settings for as secure a user experience as possible. 

You Are Over-Sharing With Apps 

In addition to controlling how your apps track you, taking control over what you share with apps is also important. You could be unknowingly giving away your location, contacts, and even information about your hardware. Always go over your app settings and cut off access to sharing so much personal information with them. 

You Don’t Have Mail Privacy Protection Enabled 

Keep senders from learning too much about your Mail activity by turning on Mail Privacy Protection, which is a setting that hides your IP address. This not only keeps senders from seeing whether you’ve opened up their email (don’t you just hate that?), but it also prevents them from linking your IP address to other online activity or using it to figure our your location.