In this era, the smartphone plays a vital role in our day-to-day life which contains your financial, health, and family-related important data. Images and videos of your private life and many more which you obviously don’t want to share with anyone but are they safe in your smartphone…?

Imagine you have your smartphone in your pocket and someone else can easily see your data even transfer it to their system without your permission even you don’t find out until hackers start blackmailing you, it is horrible but it happened several times.

Today, In this article you can see how you can secure your Android smartphone from any hacker, previously you see “How to secure your computer/laptop from hackers” but at the same time, your smartphone is also required to keep secure. If you follow the below-mentioned steps carefully, you never going to face any risk of getting leak your data or of your android mobile hacked.

How to Secured your Android Smartphone from Hackers

There are various ways that you must follow to protect your smartphone, if you go into each section in deep then this article becomes very long. That’s why TechDevilZone shared important points on what you should do to protect your phone from hackers and make your android hack-proof:

Enable 2-factor authentication

A secured android phone comes with a secure Google account, it is a place where all your synced data is actually stored and every user mostly depends on Google services. So, it is important to make sure your google account is secured by enabling two-factor authentication and providing recovery email. This is a common practice that you and other companies should adopt.

Use a secure screen lock

If you are not using a secured screen lock, do it now, change it to a secured screen lock. It always anyone think twice before touching your phone and if try to crack they can’t, your data is secured. Go to your android mobile settings> security> screen lock, different android has different settings. For a more secured screen lock use a fingerprint lock if your phone has a built scanner.

Make sure ‘Find My Phone’ is On

Losing your phone gives a worse feeling, so you also don’t want to lose it, and if you lose it now make sure you can easily track it, reset your android smartphone remotely if there is no chance of getting it back.

Google has a tracking system called Find My Phone, which is enabled by default on all new modern android smartphones. You can check it on your smartphones by going into settings>security>Find My Phone

If you lost your phone then go “Find My Phone” site and there you can do many tasks remotely with your smartphone like, locate your phone, resetting your device, start ringing your Phone remotely, and many more tasks.

Google Play Protect

Not only you, but Google also care about your security that’s why Play Protect offered by Google, which is always on, always do scanning on the play store and on your device applications. Its main aim is to keep the malicious apps, fake apps away, and even scan apps that you download from a third party.

For Play Protect settings, Setting>Security>Play Protect. Make sure play protect is on, as well as enable app scanning for side-loaded applications. For maximum security, click Full scanning and “Scan device for security threats” ON.

Device Encryption

Android smartphones should have data encryption. Every data that is exchanged over an app must be encrypted. It means every data is encrypted so if it gets stolen, there’s nothing that cybercriminals can do from your data and misuse it. Same in WhatsApp their database is encrypted so it is highly secured.

Safe Browsing

Chrome is the first choice for Android smartphones, it is safe, and it also warns you when you download any suspicious thing, visit any suspicious site(phishing). While nowadays android smartphone comes with their default browsers.

Also read: Chrome browser hidden tricks/tips of 2023

Use VPN

Install Virtual Private Network (VPN) on your smartphone, it encrypts all traffic in and out. When you are connected to a public wi-fi which is free to use but most risky way or you can say the easiest way for hackers to find their victims, you definitely going to use it but it is not always secured so you have to use a VPN for safety.

I suggest you use KeepSolid VPN, NordVPN, TorGuard, and Private Internet Access.

Use Antivirus

Well, some android smartphone comes with an inbuilt system safety feature that scans your files and tells about those files which are going to harm your smartphones.

In past days when I make a pdf payload on my smartphone it immediately marked it as a trojan through this I came to know that my smartphone has an in-built safety system and it actually working in a good way.

Well, Avast mobile security & antivirus is good for mobile safety, it also has safety features like a phone tracker, and is also easily able to find and delete malware. Another mobile security that works very well is Norton Mobile Security.

Install apps from Google Play Store only

This is one of the main issues, why most people get malware on their smartphones by downloading apps, apk’s from third-party sources. Most people want Mod apps of Netflix, amazon prime, and many more which lead them to download them from telegram or any unknown site which have malware inside it, as you install those apps you actually activating all malware and give them access to your smartphone.

Turn off Wireless connection

If you’re not using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth turn it off. It not only saved your battery life but also saves you from the attack which is done over internet connections. Still attack over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth is alive. Bluesnarfing is an attack over wireless Bluetooth protocol.

Uninstall useless apps

Every application is vulnerable that’s why application companies give their updates each after fixing bugs. It means if you have any app which you are not using then uninstall instead of providing access to hackers. It helps you by keeping you stay away from hackers.

Connect to secured networks only

In case you are a fan of free public Wi-Fi that is provided by a coffee shop, metro station, airports, and in more places. Then I can assume you are also aware of the risks that come with public Wi-Fi. If you’re not aware than you should checkout, our previous article in which we shared a detailed guide on the risks of Public Wi-Fi attacks and how to prevent yourself from attacks.

At last, TDZ suggests you avoid using public hotspots they are not as secure as you think, and if you are using it then read our guide on what should you have to do to be safe on Public Wi-Fi on TDZ.

Make your Password Uncrackable

TechDevilZone knows everyone tells you this, but it is worth making a secure password than losing your precious data. Take the help of a password manager to remember your passwords but don’t make all accounts passwords the same and make passwords that no one can think like from Dob, mobile number, or your other personal details.

Lock all Sensitive apps and Data

Everyone’s mobile is one of the valuable things, that have financial, personal, and other sensitive apps that you definitely don’t want to share with others.

If you are storing media on your android smartphone, which include pictures, videos that you don’t want to share with anyone then it recommends to not store on your smartphone either must secure them with a fingerprint password.

Review app permissions

There are several apps that don’t take permission for accessing your camera, microphone, storage, and various other features. Let’s see you download any app and it takes access to your storage and the person who handles the services of your installed app (developer) is selling your data to make money and you are definitely never able to find out when and from where your data is get leaked.

You must take care of which app taking which permission. To find out any apps permissions go to Settings>Apps>Permissions of your device. There you can see all apps and their permission.

While installing any app, review its permission. If you find an app in which it wants permission for something that you know should not be their then avoid giving that permission. For eg: a game application wants to access your camera.

Update apps and Systems regularly

Non-patched, non-updated apps are at a peak level of threat because they are easily hacked applications because they are vulnerable at every level. So, keep everything up-to-date.

You can enable automatic updates for apps for android smartphones, go to Settings>’Auto-update apps’ and choose auto-update over Wi-Fi only or Data charges.

Install a mobile security solution

Following the above steps are difficult to remember, I know. That’s why you can install mobile security which reminds you about these things so you can follow them. These apps also have antivirus and firewall features which give your android smartphone a better level of protection.

Take Backup of Data

Maybe you think that after so much security why do you need to take backup right? well, it’s not possible to make an application with zero bugs, so hackers try to find a vulnerability before companies patch them and give you an update until then your data is at a threat to get leaked.

A few years back even in this era also, hackers lock your device as they successfully make access to your system, and then they demand a high amount of money for unlocking your data. In this case, your backup plays a very important role your data is already safe and you have it. You now saved your huge money just by taking a backup which is free to do.

To do backup go to Settings>Backup & reset>Backup my data.

Check before Downloading

Sometimes you know this file is suspicious but you want that file and are still confused about what to do, what if it contains a virus or malware? At that moment you can scan that file without downloading it on your smartphone, you just need the URL of that file from where you’re downloading it.

VirusTotal is a website that can help you at this moment to scan files without downloading them.

Your Mind

Your mind is powerful, if you take care of all precautions then you don’t need any third-party security application to protect yourself. Just stay aware don’t click on a suspicious link that comes through sms/emails, visit phishing sites, download from third-party sites, and much more that you have seen in this article.

Conclusion

Now, I think you get all steps clearly just follow all above points carefully and make your android smartphone more secured, Hack-proof from any hackers or any type of malware. You have any issues or questions then let us know in the comment section. It’s TechDevilZone pleasure to solve your queries.

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