Your data is worth a lot to thieves and fraudsters; therefore you should be careful with the sources these thieves and fraudsters can use to access these data. It is time to get rid of the notion that using a password for your devices means you have something to hide. This will help prevent sensitive data like banking and account details, social security details, corporate email information etc. from being unnecessarily compromised.
Jumia Travel shares 5 important reasons you should password your devices.

1. To Avoid Pocket Dialing
Pocket dialing, especially for smartphones and even basic phones, can be humorous or annoying, but most annoyingly because your airtime is being wasted without your knowledge. Here, a preloaded phone number can be dialed when a person has a phone in the rear pocket and sits on it, or if the phone gets ‘jostled’ in a purse or briefcase. This occurrence will be reduced, if not eliminated, if your device was locked with a passcode.

2. To Protect Your Private Information
Symantec, a leading security software maker, conducted an experiment to encourage smartphone users to protect their private information. In the experiment, a phone was loaded with fake password, banking information, emails and photos, and a tracking software was installed on it to monitor what people will do with the phone when found. At the end of the experiment, the result showed 72 per cent looked through photos, 57 per cent checked out saved passwords and 43 per cent accessed the phone’s online banking app.

3. To Prevent Unwanted Prying Into Your Business
This goes without saying. Nosy friends, partners or family members who want to know about ‘every and anything’ you are doing, will have a field day with your ‘password – unprotected’ device. To protect your privacy and avoid unbelievably embarrassing and awkward scenarios, it’s best to password your device and encourage these friends, partners or family members to simply ask you questions about whatever they want to know.

4. To Monitor Others’ Use of Your Device
This is important especially if you have children that like to play with your devices. In the process of moving from one game app to another, children can keep your device running without rest till your battery runs down, regardless of the power situation. Also, without a password, a child can easily pick up your device and while looking for their favourite app, mistakenly rearrange, hide or delete sensitive information on your phone.

5. In Case of Theft
Theft is a sudden and unexpected occurrence. You don’t exactly see it coming. In the case of the theft of your device, it will be better for you if there is a security lock on your device. This is because it gives you some time to inform your bank and other relevant institutions about the theft, before the thief is able to use personal data gotten from your device(s) against you. For some devices like the iPhone, once your device is stolen and it’s password-protected, it’s easier to remotely lock and wipe it.

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Remove No 5. it can be easy flashed or reset

Thanks for the info.

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God has given me the life that u cannot take.
If fail to praise the Lord, that a very big mistake.
So all the days of my life, I go dey sing praises to God.
And my life in Jesus, God will always protect.
Amen.

If stolen,everything will be wiped away

OP...you are correct! now my phone password is changed!

Keep those porn videos out of prying eyes

Children booking space. Una mate dey hustle this morning but una dey here dey book space. MORONS

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6. To protect breakup in you relationship.

I agree wit u 100%

True

That's good but someone needs to tell this broke dudes to stop using pattern lock as if its signatures, even the rich dudes use simple patterns but the broke ones,gosh!! May use thirty seconds to draw it

Goahead:
Keep those porn videos out of prying eyes

And if I tell you to give me your phone, I want to check your videos nko?

nice points

Lol















Factory Settings Restore comes to mind

to prevent pple from accessing the p*rn u saved on the phone.

SweetBoyFriend:
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Do you even know what you're talking about ??

You can do a factory reset by continuously holding the power button and simply unclock the phone and restoring every data on the phone

Iphones are a little bit harder to unlock, if you unlock it then you have to deal with more harder task and the most secured iPhone feature which is the icloud but a $20 can unlock the icloud/b]

But it will wipe off most of the installed apps, especially those installed by the original owner of the phone.

michael142:
Children booking space. Una mate dey hustle this morning but una dey here dey book space. MORONS

See this chief M.ORON

What are you doing on this thread?
Mention me all you can, I'm not going to dignify you with a response

M.oron!

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OP, nice one, I used to have my phone without password, until I heard my whatsapp conversation come back to me from a third. Party by someone who read my chat.


Since then, I had to password my device.

dpete1:
That's good but someone needs to tell this broke dudes to stop using pattern lock as if its signatures, even the rich dudes use simple patterns but the broke ones,gosh!! May use thirty seconds to draw it

Somebody needs to tell you to polish your written English

begwong:

But it will wipe off most of the installed apps, especially those installed by the original owner of the phone.

No

Are you a novice in phone hack ?? ??

Can you flash Iphone 6?

My Lenovo P1...got stolen on the 15th, which had password on, but checking my Android Manager via my Google account the phone was last online on the 21st of February, how is that possible? - and could the phone had been unlock without 'flashing'?

dpete1:
That's good but someone needs to tell this broke dudes to stop using pattern lock as if its signatures, even the rich dudes use simple patterns but the broke ones,gosh!! May use thirty seconds to draw it

e pain am wetin concerns

Ok. Next

wizkidblogger:
to prevent pple from accessing the p*rn u saved on the phone.

I use applock to hide my porn, so even without screen lock, nobody see's all my videos

I don't use password on any of my phones cos mainly it don't have kids around to be touching the phone anyhow

As for the other reasons,

If your Android phone is stolen, forget it, password or none, it is gone

Pocket dialing will never happen to me cos of my porch

Others prying into your business?
Thanks to Hide it Pro and Vault, my phone is open but believe me, you cannot see what I don't want you to see.
If I feel that you are an android pro and you can bypass it, you ain't touching my phone

See the full specs and pic of the New Nokia 3310 2017 version. (it is not Android)

SweetBoyFriend:


Somebody needs to tell you to polish your written English

point to my mistakes and correct me!!! Merrian-webster

SweetBoyFriend:

Do you even know what you're talking about ??

You can do a factory reset by continuously holding the power button and simply unclock the phone and restore every data on the phone

Iphones are a little bit harder to unlock, if you unlock it then you have to deal with more harder task and the most secured iPhone feature which is the icloud but a $10 blackhack can unlock the icloud

You will not lose any data in the process

Rookies would find your writeup very informational

Is that what is entailed only in the write-upyou forgot the other points