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We've collected 7 tips to help protect your iPhone and the data on it. The selection includes ways to restrict access to certain functions from the locked screen, maintain the privacy of correspondence, secure information on your iPhone, and find it if lost.
7 Ways to Secure Your iPhone
1. Use a password. When you turn on your iPhone for the first time, you are prompted to set a password on your smartphone. This is the most obvious and most reliable way to protect data on your iPhone from prying eyes.
Open Settings - Touch ID and passcode (Password on iPhone models earlier than 5s).
Select the item " Enable Password" and install the code. In the parameters, you can select its type: a 4-digit code, a code with letters and numbers, or a custom code with only numbers.
2. Disable access to data from the locked screen
Despite the password you have set, by default you can open the lockscreen to view notifications, the Today section in the Control Center, launch Siri and respond to messages. These options can be disabled in the same menu.
3. Change the password prompt time
If your iPhone doesn't have Touch ID or you don't use it, you can set the amount of time after which you'll be prompted for a password. In the section Touch ID and passcode open the item Password request. The options include options immediately or every 1 minute - 4 hours.
4. Disable Control Center on Lock Screen
Let's assume that your iPhone has been stolen and they are trying to find the password for it. You can lock your device remotely via Find My iPhone only if the attackers have not put your iPhone into airplane mode. And in order not to give them this opportunity, disable the launch of Control Center on the locked screen.
Open up Settings - Control Center and disable the option On the locked screen.
5. Turn on Find My iPhone
If you still haven’t activated the Find My iPhone service on your iPhone, then put everything aside and do it.
With Find My iPhone device enabled, you can:
- track and block from another iPhone or computer, which will be useful if lost.
- prevent device reset without Apple ID password
- prohibit activation, thieves will not be able to use your iPhone without knowing your Apple ID and account password.
To activate the service, open Settings - iCloud - Find iPhone and enable the option Find iPhone
6. Hide message text on lock screen
How to hide message text on iPhone in iMessage/SMS:
- open Settings - Notifications - Messages
- disable the option Show thumbnails
How to hide the text of a message from VKontakte on iPhone:
- open VKontakte and go to Settings - Notifications
- open the item Notification text and select the option Name only
How to hide message text from Viber on iPhone:
- Launch Viber, go to the tab More and open Settings - Notifications
- Disable the option "Message Preview"
How to hide message text from WhatsApp on iPhone:
- Launch WhatsApp, go to the tab Settings and open the section Notifications
- Disable the option "Show thumbnails"
Apple ID stores payment information, contacts, photos, iPhone backups, and correspondence. It makes perfect sense to add another layer of account security.
Two-step verification is enabled in Apple ID settings from your computer.
- Open the Apple ID website and log in
- In the Security section, click Nbuild... at point Two-step verification
- Answer the security questions and follow the steps in the instructions.
If you have a problem with your iPhone in the form of a broken Home button, then this problem can be temporarily fixed by turning on the Home button. After repair it can be removed.
I'm talking about the button that appears on the screen of your iPhone and it completely replaces the functionality of the regular home button until the phone is repaired.
Home button on iPhone screen
If you saw a translucent square with a white spot in the center on your device, then this is a replacement for the desired button on your device.
This technology is called AssistiveTouch and it is used in two cases: there is no way to touch the screen or you need adaptive equipment.
In simple words, you enable this function if you damaged the screen and simply cannot use the basic functions of the phone.
In addition to the Home button, this technology has Notification Center, Device functions (sound, lock, rotate), Control Center, Siri and User (different taps on the screen). 
As you can see, if only a small part of the screen works for you, but you can see everything, then you can still safely use the phone until the problem is fixed.
How to remove/disable the Home button on the iPhone screen
To install, so to speak, a virtual Home button on your screen, you don’t need to do many steps. They are roughly like this:
As you can see, a shortcut has now appeared on the screen that allows you to use the necessary functionality, including the Home button.
This translucent shortcut can be moved to any place convenient for you. In general, it doesn’t really interfere, but still.
In iOS 11, Apple has completely changed the control center; it now consists of one tab in a dark design. But the most important innovation is the ability to customize the switches in it. This change has been awaited by many Apple users since the control center appeared 4 years ago in iOS 7.
The control center is closed to third-party developers, and no modifications can be made to it. However, Apple has provided the opportunity to add certain switches to its bottom.
With these switches, users will be able to activate certain functions faster and easier. For example, it is now possible to add functions such as screen recording or Power Saving Mode to the control center. 
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in the Control Center itself there are no hints about the possibility of editing it. To configure Control Center, you will have to go into the Settings itself on your device.
How to set up Control Center oniOS 11
1 : Open Settings on your iOS 11 device.
2 : Find in the list of settings Control room
3
: Then click on Customize controls.
4 : Two sections will appear in front of you - Turn on And More controls.
To add any control, you need to click on the green icon “ +
" next to the element name. After which it will be added to the section Turn on. 
5 : You can add as many elements as you like to the control center. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that you can do any display order. To the right of the list with switches, there is an icon (three lines). To change the order of an element, click on this icon and drag it down or up.
When you add all the necessary elements and organize them, open Control Center by swiping up from the bottom of the screen where the new switches will be located. 
As you have seen, setting up the control center in iOS 11 is not difficult.
Control Center in iOS 10 has undergone significant changes, the most important of which is the modular system. iPhone users were able to switch between three functional sections to manage system settings, music and smart home devices.
Immediately after getting acquainted with iOS 10, you may get the impression that Control Center has not changed much. At the top there are still five quick settings icons: Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb, and screen rotation lock. The switch buttons have become multi-colored, the brightness slider is in place.
A large part of the panel is now occupied by a button for quickly turning on Night Shift with a description of the function’s operating mode. The AirPlay button, which allows you to stream iPhone and iPad screens to Apple TV, has been renamed to AirPlay Screen.
The bottom still houses a number of functional elements for controlling the flashlight, timer, calculator and camera. All icons support 3D Touch, which allows you to use a number of additional options - adjust the intensity of the flashlight, set a timer, etc. It is worth noting that after deleting the Calculator application, the shortcut icon for the application disappears from the Control Center. There are only three items left on the menu.
If you swipe to the right (which will not be very obvious to users), a new section for managing music will open. Everything here without any special surprises: album cover, song title, artist name, playback time and volume slider, playback control buttons.
At the bottom there is an extended menu for sound output. Here you can choose which external device to play music through, be it Apple TV, AirPlay, Bluetooth speaker or headphones.
If you pre-set up the Home app in iOS 10 Control Center, a third section will become available - HomeKit. All smart home devices connected and registered via iCloud are displayed here. The appearance of the window can be changed by clicking on the button in the upper right corner - Scene mode.
HomeKit elements also support 3D Touch control. For example, pressing harder on the lamp icon will open a menu for selecting brightness and adjusting color.
iOS 10 remembers where you left off in Control Center. Therefore, if the last time you used the HomeKit menu, then the next time you swipe up, this menu will open. If you prefer Scene mode, the system will remember that too.
The redesigned Control Center is part of the iOS 10 developer beta. The launch of public testing is expected in July this year, the final version of the platform will be released in September.
Contrary to this, Apple did not introduce the ability to customize Control Center, instead slightly updating its design and adding an additional tab for managing music. However, according to developer Andrew Vick, the first beta version of iOS 10 does not show all the changes to the Control Center and a cellular data switch will appear in one of the next tested builds.
While exploring, Vic discovered the ControlCenterUI framework, which includes the CCUICellularDataSetting class. The discovery hints at the possible appearance of a cellular data switch in the Control Center itself, but Vic took it a step further. 
By running iOS 10 beta 1 inside the emulator, he managed to display an additional sixth icon in the Control Center, which currently does not have an icon. It is she, the developer notes, who will be responsible for quickly turning on and off cellular data on an iPhone running “Ten”.
Previously, Andrew Vick introduced a dark interface mode in iOS 10, which Apple did not announce as one of the main features of the new version of iOS. At the moment, the dark mode of the interface is in a crude state, to put it mildly - it only supports the Messages application and cannot be used on devices. This should not alarm users - there are still several months left before the release of iOS 10, during which Apple will undoubtedly bring the dark interface theme to a working state.
