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If you’re like a lot of smart phone users you rely on email communication to correspond with friends, family, and coworkers. And, perhaps, you’d rather not the rest of the world, or would-be hackers, get ahold of some of the private information that you convey via email.
Luckily, there’s a phone setting that can help keep your private info secure. This is the one email setting you should turn on ASAP, according to security experts.
One of the easiest, and most effective ways you can safeguard your email is by simply ensuring your password is strong, complex, and that you have not already used it before.
But given the number of sites and apps you use that require a unique password, it’s pretty difficult to create and recall passwords for each of them.
But there is a setting that can help.
iOS 12’s password manager has a new feature called password auditing that provides you with a helpful warning any time you try to create a password that you’ve already used before, according to Tech Crunch. “It prevents password reuse attacks (known as ‘credential stuffing’) that hackers use to break into multiple sites and services using the same username and password.”
Here’s the simple way to set up this feature on your phone: “Go to Settings > Passwords & Accounts > Website & App Passwords and enter your passcode,” reports Tech Crunch. “You’ll see a small warning symbol next to each account that recognizes a reused password. One tap of the Change Password on Website button and you’re done.”
Wondering how to make your actual password as strong as possible? Some important tips to keep in mind include never creating a password that’s less than 15 characters and using a creative mix of numbers, symbols, and lowercase and uppercase letters.
