Safety and emergency features on the iPhone must be turned on (Part Two)

It has always been an operating system IPhone Focuses on the security and privacy of users, but with increasing threats everywhere, you should be aware of how to protect your data, your digital life, and your iPhone by all possible means, and after we reviewed in Previous article Part one The most important safety and emergency features in your iPhone. We will now complete what we started and get to know the second part of the article and the features that must be enabled on your iPhone so that you are not exposed to various threats and risks.

Most of these features only work on iOS 16 or later

 passkeys

Submitted Camel Passkeys to be an alternative to passwords in order to protect users from hacking, phishing, etc., and each iPhone creates unique and secure keys for each account when logging in to applications and websites on the Internet, and the passkey consists of a pair of keys, the first being public and present in The site or application you want to use and the second is only present on your iPhone, and the passkeys are always strong so that no one can guess or access them. To use the passkeys, the iCloud keychain must be turned on and two-factor authentication enabled. For your Apple ID, and the app or website must support this feature, here's how to set up passkeys for a new account:

• Head to the login screen
• Choose Sign up with Apple
• Then press the Create your account button
• A window will appear asking if you want to save a passkey for your address
• Click Continue and the passkey will be generated

 Thus, you are logged into the application or website you want to visit with passkeys and without the need to create or use a password.

Turn on advanced data protection

Apple provides protection and encryption by default for your files when you store them on its cloud service, but that protection was limited to a few of those files, but Apple introduced a feature called Advanced Data Protection to encrypt more files, and this includes reminders, shortcuts, bookmarks in Safari, Siri shortcuts, device backups, and messages notes, photos, voice memos, and even passcodes in Wallet, so we recommend that you enable Advanced Data Protection for iCloud as follows:

• Go to settings, then your name
• Then iCloud and scroll down
• And tap Advanced data protection and turn it on

 Follow the instructions that appear after that to successfully enable the new feature and encrypt the majority of your files intricately and strongly to prevent anyone from accessing your data in the cloud.

Change the express send timeout

AirDrop is an easy feature to quickly share and transfer files but often times, you receive unwanted files from people near you. To prevent this, you can choose to receive only from contacts, or you can allow the feature to work for a limited time (10 minutes only). To control AirDrop, do the following:

• Go to Settings
• Then General, and then AirDrop
• Select everyone for 10 minutes

Now if you are inactive for ten minutes, the quick send feature will only be made available to your contacts and not to everyone.

Hide your email

Hide your email is a security feature provided by Apple to maintain the privacy of your personal email and prevent applications and sites from knowing it. Thus, your mail is protected and you are prevented from being targeted with suspicious and annoying messages. The feature works by creating a unique and random email that is used to receive messages and resend them to your personal mail. Here is how to operate the service:

•  Go to Settings, then your name, then iCloud
• Click Hide my email
• Then create a new address and follow the instructions that appear to you
  

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 Hide address using iCloud

By using the iCloud Private Relay Hide Address feature, you can prevent websites from tracking you and knowing your IP address. Where this feature works to ensure that no one, not even Apple itself, can know your identity and the websites you visit on Safari. Your traffic and data is routed through two separate, secure Internet stages. Therefore, you can surf the Internet safely and maintain your privacy. To activate this feature, do the following:

• Open Settings on the iPhone
• Click on your name, then iCloud
• Choose Hide Title and turn it on

This way, even the network service providers will not be able to spy on you and see what you are doing on the web.

App permission control

Thanks to Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature, each app must obtain your permission in order to access your data, and at any time you can either give permission to the app or even withdraw it without any problem as your data is used to target you with benefits, measure its performance, or share it with others. Data brokers, and to manage activity tracking permissions, do the following:

• Go to Settings on the iPhone
• Then privacy and security
• Then click on tracking
• You can turn off or turn on the tracking permission for any app

Thus, we have come to the conclusion after we got acquainted with the second part, which included the rest of the security and emergency features on the iPhone that you must turn on for better protection, and remember that the Internet is no longer a safe place and for this you need to run all the security and protection features that the iPhone provides you. your iPhone so that you do not fall prey to hacking attempts that occur in various different ways.

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