Losing your smartphone can be expensive, but the cost of the device may not be the final price you’ll be paying
According to a Prey study of 2018 reports from its customers of lost mobile devices, 69% are misplaced and 31% are stolen in various ways. Since smartphones have become a centerpiece of our digital identities, where we check our emails, stay connected on our social media, use them as our diaries, and pay with them, it is especially unnerving if we lose them. Your phone holds a virtual truckload of sensitive personal information that can exploited for a host of nefarious actions should it fall into the wrong hands.
Securing your device starts well before it goes missing, so what steps should you take before and after your phone is stolen or misplaced?
Back up your phone, store the data somewhere safe
This step should be a no-brainer but if you haven’t gotten around to it yet, then you should do it as soon as possible, like: now. There are multiple ways to go about it, and we looked at backup options for smartphones in greater detail last week.
In a nutshell, you can save a local backup file that includes all the bare necessities, such as contacts, messages, and photos on your computer. Doing that once a month will probably save from a headache, in the long run.
Alternatively, you can enable the auto-backup feature on your phone that will regularly back up your data onto the cloud, or you can back up your files to the cloud manually. To be safe ..
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