iPhone Security Hub

iPhone security: where to start

Your iPhone holds your messages, photos, banking, and the keys to almost every account you own. It's well prot...

A 10-minute iPhone security check

Set your iPhone up a while ago? This quick check confirms the important protections are still on. It takes abo...

Secure your Apple Account on iPhone

Your Apple Account guards your iCloud backups, photos, messages, and Find My. Locking it down properly protect...

Set up Face ID or Touch ID

Face ID and Touch ID let you unlock and approve things instantly while keeping a strong passcode behind them. ...

Choose a strong iPhone passcode

Your passcode is the master key to your iPhone. A four-digit PIN can be watched over your shoulder or guessed....

Use iCloud Keychain or a password manager

Reusing the same password across sites is the most common way accounts get taken over. A password manager solv...

Turn on Find My iPhone

If your iPhone goes missing, Find My lets you see where it is, lock it, or erase it from another device or fro...

Only install from the App Store, and spot fakes

One of the biggest reasons iPhones stay safe is that apps come from the App Store, where Apple reviews every o...

Review your app permissions

Apps often ask for more access than they really need. Reviewing what each one can reach is a quick way to prot...

Safe browsing in Safari

Most scams and dodgy downloads start with a website. Safari has built-in protections that warn you about dange...

Remove apps you don't use

Apps you installed once and forgot still sit in the background, keep permissions, and occasionally receive upd...

Public Wi-Fi safety on iPhone

Public Wi-Fi in cafés, hotels, and airports is handy, but you're sharing it with everyone else on it, and it's...

Using a VPN on iPhone

A VPN scrambles your internet connection so others on the same network can't read it. On an iPhone it's most u...

Lock down AirDrop and Bluetooth

AirDrop and Bluetooth are useful, but left wide open they let strangers nearby send you files or try to connec...

Secure your iPhone's Personal Hotspot

Personal Hotspot shares your iPhone's mobile data with your laptop or other devices. It's genuinely useful, an...

Keep iOS up to date automatically

Keeping iOS current is the single most effective thing you can do for your iPhone's security. Most attacks rel...

When to use Lockdown Mode

Lockdown Mode is an optional, extra-strong protection built into the iPhone. It's not for everyone, but it's w...

Set a short auto-lock

A passcode only protects you once the phone actually locks. If your iPhone stays awake for minutes after you s...

Review your privacy and tracking settings

Your iPhone has strong privacy controls, but a few are worth setting deliberately rather than leaving on their...

Back up your iPhone

A backup is the safety net behind everything else. If your iPhone is lost, broken, or stolen, a recent backup ...

Phishing on iPhone: fake texts and calls

Phishing is a message designed to trick you into handing over a password, a code, or money. On a phone it arri...

Smishing: scam text messages

Smishing is simply phishing by text message, and it's one of the most common scams in the UK. The texts are de...

What to do if your iPhone is compromised

iPhones are hard to hack directly, so a hacked phone usually means an account has been broken into or a scam p...

Use Screen Time to protect the family

Screen Time is often thought of as a way to limit hours on a phone, but it's also a genuine set of safety cont...