How To Password Protect On Smartphone and PC

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This guide shows you how to Password Protect On Smartphone and PC. There is also information about how to get around the problem. Most likely, you already have a PIN or biometrics set up to lock your iPhone and Android. But this is only one way to protect yourself. Personal information is stored on our phones, and it’s always a good idea to add an extra layer of security for private information.

Even though a screen lock helps protect you in some ways, you may feel uneasy giving your phone to someone else. When this happens, you can protect private apps like banking apps by locking them with a password. Other apps, like texts, photos, and videos, can also be protected.

How To Password Protect On Android

Using Setting

• Open the Settings app on your phone.
• Click on Biometrics and security option.
• Navigate to Other security settings and tap on it.
• Under the Advanced section of the page, you will see Pin windows. Tap the switch in front of the Pin windows to enable the pinning function.
• Open the app you want to pin.
• After opening it, tap the Recents button at the bottom of your screen to see opened apps.
• Click on the app icon at the app’s top.
• A list of three options will pop up. Choose Pin this app.
• You will get a notification showing you how to unpin the app: To unpin this app, touch and hold the Recents and Back buttons simultaneously.
• Complete the process by tapping the OK button.

Using Secure Folder

Samsung as a way to lock apps besides using a password. All Samsung smartphones already have it on them. If you can’t find it on your Samsung and it has Android version, you can get it from the Google Play Store. Here’s what to do with it.

• Open the Settings app on your phone.
• Click on Biometrics and security option.
• Look for the Secure Folder section on the screen and pick it.
• Click on Agree and login into your Samsung account.
• Choose a Lock type; pattern, pin, password, or biometric.
• Open the Secure Folder app.
• Click on Add apps to include the apps you want to lock.
• Press the Add button once it pops up.
• Click on the hamburger icon at the top right corner of the screen to get a drop-down list.
• Select Lock and exit from the list. You will get a message telling you that Secure Folder is locked.

How To Password Protect On iPhone

Set a passcode

Apple will ask you to set a password whenever you turn on or restore an iPhone or iPad for the first time. You can still set a PIN at any time in Settings, even if you skipped that step or turned it off afterward.

1. Launch Settings from the Home screen.
2. Tap Touch ID & Passcode.
3. Tap Turn Passcode On.
4. Optionally tap Passcode Options to choose an alphanumeric or 4-digit passcode. Otherwise, skip to step 5.
5. Enter a 6-digit passcode.
6. Re-enter the passcode.

Change your passcode

Change your PIN every so often, especially if you think someone might have seen you type in the current one.

1. Launch Settings from the Home screen.
2. Tap Touch ID & Passcode.
3. Enter your existing 4- or 6-digit digit passcode.
4. Tap Change Passcode
5. Re-enter your existing passcode.
6. Enter your new, 6-digit passcode.
7. Re-enter your new, 6-digit passcode.

Switch to a longer numeric passcode

If you don’t think a 6-digit numeric passcode is safe enough but don’t want to deal with an alphabetic password, you can set a custom numeric passcode, which is just more than 6-digits.

1. Launch Settings from the Home screen.
2. Tap Touch ID & Passcode.
3. Enter your existing passcode.
4. Tap Change Passcode
5. Re-enter your existing passcode.
6. Tap Passcode Options.
7. Tap Custom Numeric Passcode.
8. Enter your new passcode numbers, as many as you can remember for daily usage.
9. Re-enter your passcode numbers.

How To Password Protect On Mac

Unfortunately, there isn’t a special app for this on macOS right now. You can use third-party tools to help you with this, which is good news. Check out AppLocker if you want a simple one that is easy to use and has a friendly design. AppLocker is made to lock apps, just like its name says. What you have to do is:

1. On your Mac, install the AppLocker app from the App Store. 
2. Open the app once the download is complete. 
3. When prompted, enter your desired password. 
4. Click on the app icon located in the menu bar, which is at the top of the screen.  
5. Enter the password you previously set. 
6. Click on the Add icon located at the top-right corner of the screen. From there, you will find a list of all the applications on your Mac. 
7. Select the app you wish to lock and that’s it.  

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