Your smartphone may be the biggest helper you have in executing daily activities and storing sensitive information, but it can also be one of the best ways for someone to disrupt your life.
There are a plethora of spies and apps that can be used to track, record and steal sensitive information about you from your smartphone, without you even realizing that. Check below how you can know when you’re possibly being tracked.
First of all, for some reason, your battery seems to drain faster than usual. Like you lose battery even without you using the phone. This could be a possible alert to you being tracked because these tracking devices and apps usually operate in the background of your phone, stealing your data constantly which may account for your battery drains.
Again, you may notice that your data seems to finish way faster than it used to. You notice that you seem to spend more on data bundles even though you’re engaging in the same activities as before. That should alert you that some background app is using your data, possibly to track you.
Also, you may notice some apps that are not system apps on the phone. Applications that you distinctly do not remember downloading. This could point to the fact that you have malware or you are possibly being tracked. If you didn’t download them, who did?
All these and more are various ways that may point to you being tracked. In that case, you have the option to factory reset your phone, use an antivirus app to uproot the malware or install tighter security on your phone by setting up patterns and passwords on sensitive applications.