Pro trick to secure your apps and protect your phone
You probably have a lock of some sort on your phone to keep it secure.
If you don’t, you should get one. Tap here to see which lock is the most secure for your smartphone. But what about your apps? It may seem unnecessary to secure them when your phone is already locked, but it provides an extra layer of protection from snoops and thieves.
Individual app passwords can protect sensitive information found in banking or other personal apps. They can also make you hesitate before opening Facebook for the fifth time in the last 10 minutes.
Android smartphones have a few ways of locking individual apps to help protect your privacy and keep you productive. Let’s start with how to protect your apps.
How to put a password on individual apps
The secret to locking individual apps in Android is other apps. Third-party app-locking apps can be obtained in the Google Play Store and can be used to generate passcodes or patterns you must enter before you can access a particular app.
The most recommended locking app for this purpose is AppLock. There are a few apps called AppLock on the Google Play Store, and you’d be OK with most of them, but the one we’ve seen most often, and like the best, is the free AppLock made by DoMobile Lab.
Using AppLock, or any locking app, is pretty simple:
- Download the app to your phone.
- Open the app, and when prompted, input a password to use with individual apps. Make sure it’s not the same as the passcode you use to lock your phone.
- Give AppLock permission to open on top of other apps when prompted (this will create the lock later).
- Select an app you wish to lock with the passcode you’ve created while inside AppLock, then tap the “Lock” button.
- You’ll be notified that the lock was successful. Try to open that app to confirm.
We like AppLock because it can enable fingerprint locking to protect individual apps in addition to a passcode. It also offers a cleaner that can free up storage space on your phone.
A battery saver within it can help you save power and extend your battery life, a cooler to keep your phone’s CPU at a safe temperature, and a booster to improve your phone’s speed. Tap or click for other ways of increasing your Android phone’s speed.
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