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If your iPhone does Any of This. Your Phone might have been hacked. Here Is How to Prevent It

Technology has become an extremely integral part of our life! No matter what, we have slowly become dependent on it!

Take our phones for example! Can you imagine your life without a phone? There are very few who can.

Now imagine what will happen if your phone gets hacked? What about your privacy? Here are ways to figure that out and protect it!

High data usage

Phone hacking has become a very common means of intruding somebody’s privacy.

Take private photo leak saga of Hollywood celebs.

So how do you know that your Phone is hacked? What are the symptoms to know that?

High data usage

By the end of the month, if your Data bill is far more than your actual usage, chances are that your phone is hacked and somebody is living off your Internet!

So keep a bar on how much Phone data can be used and keep checking it!

Mystery pop-ups

A lot of people misunderstand the existence mystery pop ups! While not all pop-ups mean your phone has been hacked, constant pop-up alerts could indicate that your phone has been infected with adware, a form of malware that forces devices to view certain pages that drive revenue through clicks so beware!

Phones often fail to perform to their best capacity if an external malware is doing crazy stuff in it!

If you find your phone frequently freezing, or certain applications crashing? This could be down to malware that is overloading in it.

Noticeable decrease in battery life

If there is a noticeable decrease in the battery performance of your phone, even that could mean the same thing!

Outgoing calls or texts you didn’t send

If you ever notice that in the calling or text message list, there was any call or message sent but not by you or anybody you know, take actions immediately because that is a clear sign of hacking!

Unusual activity on any accounts linked to the device

Same thing goes for your linked accounts in device as well! Any unusual activity there cannot be good!

If your Phone Heats Up too soon

Experts suggest that even if your phone heats up too soon, there are slight chances that it might be hacked. So you need to get it checked ASAP!

How Can We Stop It?

So how can we prevent our phone from getting hacked? Well, it isn’t that difficult to be honest.

  1. Don’t use anyone’s charger or USB that can easily target your phone.
  2. Stop downloading unknown URL code.
  3. Avoid using free WIFI.
  4. Use antivirus software inside your phone.
  5. Update your phone regularly.
  6. Create strong passwords.
  7. Don’t use public computers for the transaction.

By merely following these guidelines, you can prevent your phone from hacking!

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