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Best security practices for your iPhone/iPad

Basic Security – Everybody should at least do this

Turn on passcode lock and set a 4 digit numeric pin number.

Set it to only prompt for the pin number after 1 hour of inactivity.

Medium Security – For those who like to be extra careful

Turn off simple pascode and opt for a more secure alphanumeric password.

Set it to prompt for the password immediately so every time you pick up the device it prompts you for a password.

Turn restrictions on and go to location services, click find my ipad and make sure “status bar icon is off” so tell tale gps arrow doesnt show if you need to track your iOS device.

High Security – For the über paranoid

As per medium security above for the passcode.

Turn on Erase Data so if somebody tried to use the wrong passcode 10 times it wipes your device.

Turn Restrictions on and go to location section, make sure all the apps you use that need location services are turned on (disable any apps you dont think need to know you location)

Go to system services and disable Setting time zone, location based iAds, Diag and Usage (they just waste battery for now reason). Make sure status bar icon for system services is also OFF.

Make sure find ipad is ON and status bar icon is OFF.

and then select Dont allow changes. this greys out all location services so if your ipad ends up in the wrong hands and they took it from you whilst you were logged in (ie they dont need to get past your passcode). However, a clever thief who’s managed to take your ipad from your hands whilst you were logged would first try and disable location services, once they realise they cant the will then jump to deleting your iCloud or MobileMe account so you can’t use find my ipad, so you’ll want to stop them from being able to do that.

Go to restrictions–>Accounts–>click Don’t Allow Changes and now all the account options are greyed out.

This next step will seem non-sensical but if you want to make sure you can track your iOS device and get it back then make sure Erase data after 10 failed passwords is turned OFF. If it’s turned on and they try 10 passwords your iOS device wipes itself make it like a brand new iPad for them to play with and no way for you to track it.

 

 

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iTunes Home Share not showing up? Check the advanced settings [FIX]

Finally, one of the greatest features missing from Aplpe iOS devices ( iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) has now been made available as of iOS4.3…Home Share.

Home Share has been around in some guise for a fear or two now, allowing computers on the same network to see, browse and play music and videos from other iTunes Libraries on the network. What was lacking, however, was the ability for an Apple iOS device to see and stream this content whilst on the same network, it was restricted to OS X and Windows operating systems running the latest iTunes.

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Elago S4 Breathe – perhaps the thinnest and best case for iPhone 4?

This might be a strange way to start a case review but I hate iPhone cases. I’ve bought every single iPhone (2G, 3G and 3GS) released on launch day and used them all naked, without cases or screen protectors. I’m not a clumsy person, I take exceptionally good care of my iPhones, cameras and gadgets and as such I’ve never needed a case for “protection” reasons. Apple spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on designing some of the best looking hardware available today so it seems a shame to hide such beauty under a horrible, bulky case, if I wanted an ugly chunky phone I’d have bought a Nokia (sorry Nokia, I was a loyal 8-series fan until the iPhone).

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Change iPhone home screen wallpaper to blank/black in iOS4

Having just updated my iPhone 3GS to iOS4, one of the new features is the ability to set a custom home screen wallpaper, problem is the upgrade defaults to setting the home screen wallpaper to the same as your lock screen wallpaper.

I might be alone on this one, but I really don’t want anything distracting behind all my iPhone app icons and Apple haven’t given you a way to revert back to a black wallpaper. You could simply cover your camera lens and take a dark photo and set that or instead, just click and hold on the image below to save it to your camera roll and set that as your homescreen wallpaper, problem solved.