The security of social networks has become an essential weapon today. Despite the fact that the main risks that threaten our personal data are found on the Internet, there are many malicious people who seek to rummage through your phone when you do not realize it.
For this reason, in La República we have prepared this note where we offer you some free tricks so that you can be aware of what happens when you do not have your smartphone nearby and, even better, so that you can discover who this person is.
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Steps to create a function and discover who tries to enter our smartphone
- On your iPhone, open ‘shortcuts’ and create a new one.
- Give it the name of the app you want to protect.
- In the action search engine, type ‘photo’ and add the ‘take photo’ action.
- Choose the front camera and disable preview.
- Now, in the search box, type ‘send’ and choose the ‘send email’ action. The action will be created below the photo.
- In the options, add the recipient (yourself) and specify the subject you want.
- Disable the ‘show compose sheet’ option.
Once the shortcut has been created, we will only have to give the application an appearance so that nobody notices it and we can cheat. For that, follow these steps:
- With the shortcut open, we make sure that the shortcut has the name of the app we want to disguise. Instagram or WhatsApp are perfect candidates, but it also works for any other app.
- We search the internet for the logo of the app we want and save it to the reel.
- In the shortcut, we hit the share button and add it to the home screen. We choose the logo that we just saved on the reel as the icon.
- Now, we must hide the real app so that whoever takes our iPhone does not confuse it. We hold down its icon and click on ‘edit home screen’. We touch the icon ‘–‘ and we click ‘remove from home screen’. In this way, we do not delete the app but we save it in the ‘iPhone app library’.
Here it is. The procedure may be a bit long, but it will be worth it. You will see that every time someone tries to enter your social networks you will be able to discover it easily and quickly.