iPad and iPad Pro For Dummies, 2022nd Edition

Chapter 18

Ten Ways to Beef Up Privacy and Security

IN THIS CHAPTER

Locking your iPad with a passcode, a fingerprint, or facial recognition

Putting your iPad to sleep automatically

Controlling app access to your location, hardware, and data

Checking passwords for involvement in a data leak

Setting up restrictions for a kid’s iPad

Your iPad is a music and video player, a web browser and wayfinder, an email and text exchanger, a payments device, and much more. However, although you might readily see your iPad in all these different roles, there’s one role you might overlook: a vault. Perhaps you dismiss the idea because, after all, a vault is a place to store valuable things. Ah, but then you’ve fallen right into my trap: If your iPad had seams it would be bursting at them with valuables in the form of your precious personal data. And if your iPad were to fall into the wrong hands, those hands would also have access to an uncomfortable amount of important data (important to you, anyway). ...