Despite the popularity of Facebook and the security options it provides us, the social network is not exempt from possible hacks and cybercriminals. For this reason, it is necessary to know all the tricks offered by the platform that can help us detect a suspicious login in our account. How does this method work? In the following paragraphs we detail it.
Preventing someone from having access to our Facebook account is essential since in it we not only share news, memes, videos or photos, but we also have information of a personal nature that cannot fall into the hands of strangers.
For this reason, it is important to learn the method that helps us discover if a suspect has access to our Facebook account. The best thing about this trick is that it works on iOS Y Androidat the same time there is no need to download any third-party app.
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How to detect a suspicious login on Facebook?
The functionality to check for a suspicious Facebook login is native to the app itself and requires only a few simple steps. These are the instructions you must follow:
- Open Facebook from your Android phone or iPhone
- Click on ‘Settings and privacy’ > ‘Settings’
- Scroll down to ‘Security’ and click on ‘Security and login’
- In the ‘Where did you log in’ section click on ‘See all’
- A list will appear with all the logins of your account and here you can find those that you do not recognize
- Click on the suspicious login and click the ‘Logout’ button.
In this way, you can withdraw from your account Facebook to any stranger who has been able to access. A password change and enabling login alerts are also recommended to prevent a new intruder.
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Step by step to open more than one Facebook Messenger account on my phone
The only requirement to activate this Facebook Messenger trick is to log in to any of your accounts from your phone. Then, you must follow these instructions:
- Go to your Facebook Messenger account and click on your profile picture.
- Among the configuration options choose ‘Change account’.
- Here you will find all the accounts with which you have signed in or added in Facebook Messenger
- If you want to add a new account, click on the ‘+’ icon.
- Finally, add the name and password of the new account.
After completing this process you can save up to five different accounts in FacebookMessenger to use them from a single phone. In addition, you can constantly switch between one account and another.