The protection of an Android smartphone is essential today because it is no longer a question of protecting only a phone, but of keeping the numerous personal information that is inside it private, including Google and Facebook accounts, Whatsapp messages and payment or banking transactions. For this reason, in addition to the basic Android protections with the screen lock, anti-theft apps are also needed to locate and lock the smartphone even if stolen or lost .
A simpler app than an anti-theft device, lighter, less invasive and very simple is Lockwatch, which allows you to find out who is trying to unlock our mobile phone, locating it and taking a picture of it .
In practice, with LockWatch installed on the Android smartphone, when several incorrect attempts to unlock by PIN, Password or sequence are detected, you will receive an email with the photo of the person who is trying .
The email is sent to the Gmail address used to register the Google user on Android.
The application can be configured for one or three wrong attempts and leaves 10 seconds, after an incorrect attempt, to repeat it correctly, so as not to receive continuous emails in case we ourselves are wrong.
The email includes, in addition to the photo taken with the front camera of the mobile phone, also the date and time of the wrong attempt and, above all, the exact position on the map where the phone is located, with the coordinates of latitude and longitude.
This app therefore becomes good not only to defend the phone from family or friends who try to spy on us in our absence, but also to catch those who stole it .
If you want to use this app as a real burglar alarm, you can buy the Premium version, for 5 Euros, which warns the user in case there is a SIM change in the phone, to also record the audio during incorrect unlock attempts and to receive the location coordinates via SMS, if there is no active internet connection.
You can download LockWatch for free from the Google Play Store while, for more information, you can read the official website of the application.
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