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I've been thinking a lot lately about security for the iPhone. It's such an important part of my daily routine that it would be difficult to replace if it were lost or stolen. Here are some tricks and utilities I've come across lately to give me greater peace of mind:
- Create a wallpaper in Photoshop with your contact information placed on a layer. I found this great Template (PSD) that has this already set up for you. You can, of course, insert any wallpaper you'd like. Thank you to whoever created this template.
- Use the four-digit passcode. You can find this under General --> Passcode Lock. I've had this turned on for a while and set it to lock after 2 minutes. There is also an option to completely wipe your iPhone after 10 invalid passcodes are entered.
- Download Undercover for iPhone. I've had this excellent program running on all of my Macs for years. It will basically track your iPhone using the built-in GPS if it is stolen. The downside--the program has to be opened for this to work and it cannot run in the background. The folks at Orbicule say they are working with other application developers to improve this product.
- Make a backup of your phone through iTunes at least every 2 weeks. In case you do lose your phone, you can easily restore all of your information to another iPhone extremely easily.
There are lots of rumors out there that the iPhone 3.0 software (coming this summer) will include much better security, including remote wipe and built in GPS tracking via Mobile Me. I'm looking forward to it, but this should hold me over until then.
