Secure your iPhone
Secure your iPhone
Find out how to make your iPhone more secure than Fort Knox
IT WILL TAKE 20 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN
About various iOS security options
YOU’LL NEED iOS 17 or later
Touch ID and Face ID are hard to fool, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t add more security to your iPhone – and iOS 17 makes it fairly easy to make your iPhone more secure. We’re saying ‘fairly easy’ because as you’ll see, the settings aren’t all stored in the same place so you need to go on a bit of a security safari to use them all.
The bulk of these features are designed to limit the information that others can access, but some are specifically for preventing a lost or stolen iPhone from becoming an even bigger nightmare. So what should you do if your iPhone gets lost or stolen? Using another Apple device or a web browser and iCloud.com, go into Find My and see if you can locate it. From Find My you can also activate features such as Lost Mode. This displays your contact information on screen for the person who finds it to use; if you fear the worst you can remotely lock and wipe your iPhone here too.