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BEST SECURITY AND PRIVACY FEATURES IN IOS 12

by Shery Williams Travel &Tourism

Apple recently launched its latest iOS 12 for all iPhone devices. Using iOS 12 on their iPhone one can get enhanced security features than before. And that is more essential, since our lives, personal, as well as confidential data stored in our phones. We stored almost all of our personal information in our phones from medical records data to bank account information, iPhones are full of information or data which is important to protect. As of security reasons iPhone is one of the most demanded and famous brands among the users.

Apple’s committed to providing strong privacy and security to all the Apple devices. Apart from security and privacy, iOS 12 attach various new security features which react to ever-evolving risks and various other ways to communicate with the world. Well, there are several other handy security features available in settings in iOS 12. Here we provide the name of features which you should enable right away and the complete stepwise guide which helps you in enabling these 5 important features in your iPhone.

Pick Up Features For Your Lockscreen

Generally, all users securing their devices by using the password, but depending on the iPhone settings lots of information and data can be easily accessible at the time when the device is locked. As a result, iPhone lock screen provides access to the text messages, Siri, Phone calls and many others things which can available or showing on the lock screen when they add them by going to the settings of their iPhones. This means that anyone who has your iPhone can do lots of things with your iPhone which you don’t want to share with someone else. Thankfully, iOS 12 allows you to manage features which are available on the lock screen of your iPhone. Manage your lock screen settings by applying below given steps in the same manner as mentioned below:

  1. Press the ‘Settings’ icon to open the settings menu.
  2. Click on the ‘Face ID & Password’ option.
  3. Type your ‘Password’ to provide security to the iPhone.
  4. After that, scroll down the menu and choose ‘Allow Access When Locked’ option.
  5. It will show you the following options:
    1. Notification Center.
    2. Control Center.
    3. Today View.
    4. Siri.
    5. Reply and Message.
    6. Home Control.
    7. USB Accessories.
    8. Return Missed Call.
  6. For any of the feature, users wish to block the access to direct from the lockscreen; you need to toggle the slider to off/white mode.

Steps to Set the Autofill Passwords

When you saved usernames and passwords of any websites in Safari, for those other people who have your iPhone has been able to unlock it, and they will easily log into any website account which you have. Well, it’s quite large security threats for the users. Luckily, Apple offers one more setting which can make accessing the saved usernames and passwords even more protective and secure. Follow the steps to set autofill passwords:

  1. Click on the ‘Settings’ logo to launch the settings menu on the screen.
  2. Press the ‘Face ID & Passcode’ or ‘Touch ID Passcode’ depends on the iPhone models users have.
  3. Provide your ‘Passcode’ in the prompted field.
  4. Toggle the ‘Password Autofill’ slider to on or green.

Shery Williams is an employee at a top email service provider company in the day, and a technical writer at night. She is passionate about writing troubleshooting tips, beginner’s guides, news, and other articles on varied topics. She has written majorly on canon printer support, brother printer support and epson printer etc.


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