iOS 18 has introduced a safety feature that can help you to lock and hide apps. This feature can help you to hide secret data from others. Today in this digital era we use so many apps and among them some can be secretive too. Especially gallery and social media apps that need to be secured. This is because we share a huge amount of information / media through these platforms. So, given below are the ways on how you can protect your data in your phone.
Hide your apps in iPhone
There has been a rising number of fraud and cybercrime in today’s digital era. Many of our apps are secretly draining data.So, in order to stay safe you can use this lock and hide feature. So, how to use the security feature? Given below are some simple steps that will help you to lock and hide your apps in iPhone.
- First open the ‘setting’ option on your iPhone.
- Next you need to scroll down and click on the ‘privacy and security’ app.
- Now you will get the ‘app lock’ option within the ‘privacy and security’ menu.
- After you have found the ‘app lock’, click on it.
- You now need to turn on the ‘app lock.’
- After selecting the ‘app lock,’ you will get the option to select the apps that you want to lock.
- Now select the apps you want to lock. After that you will be directed to select a pin or password as a lock.
- Now you just need to set a password or pin for locking the app
Please note that in addition to Pin and password, you can also lock your app by using touch ID or Face Id.
Other safety tips
In addition to the above mentioned safety features, you can also use other ways to keep your device safe. If you are using a password to lock your apps, try using complex passwords. Try using a mix of numbers, letters and signs such as @, # and more. Also, it is suggested that you use face id lock for better security.
Furthermore, if you want to hide locked apps from the homescreen you can do it from the App library. Swipe left on your phone to access the App library.Now select the apps you want to hide.
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