3 Signs That Someone is Spying on You Without Your Knowledge

Everybody wants that rectangular object that seems to entertain and sometimes can’t live without.

Who doesn’t need a Smartphone? I think in this era of technology everyone does.

Six days ago I posted about 5 Important Settings We Need To Change On Our Phone which includes stuff like tracking a mobile phone.

When it comes to tracking a mobile phone, there are two different cases. One is you track your own device and the other one is someone is tracking your device.

For some reason that you lost your phone or it was stolen you can go to android.com/find and for iPhone it is something like iCloud.com/find. Then you will be able to locate your phone and do necessary actions remotely.

There are instances that our Smartphones heat up a lot. This is common to all mobile devices especially if you are using your phone for online games for more than an hour with mobile data connection. Or you are watching a movie with it.

By the way it is not safe to use your mobile devices while charging and connecting it to the internet. You must understand that phones heat up when charging and using it at the same time will just add heat to the device. Besides, it will slow down the charging time.

Sometimes you might notice that your phone just suddenly consumes a lot more battery charge than usual. You have to be careful because this might be a sign that you are being tracked and that someone is accessing your phone to steal information like the password to your bank account.

Below are three things you need to pay attention to for a possible hacking activity on your device.

1. Increase in data usage

All apps installed in our phone have logs to their data usage. Of course it will only record its logs when we are using our phone. However if it increases its data usage for no reason then there is something suspicious about the apps installed in your phone. Whoever installed that app in your phone has set it to constantly monitor and record all information on your phone then upload it to their storage somewhere in the web. And by doing so it needs a lot of data.

2. Your Phone heats up a lot

Because your phone uses a lot of data, most likely it will consume a lot of battery power. You will notice that your phone lasts for only two or three hours more than normal. Obviously, something is going on with your device. There is an app that keeps on running in the background without you noticing it. So it will drain all of your battery’s juice.

3. Screen activity

If your phone is on standby mode then suddenly the screen lights up even if there is no notification or something, you better pay attention. There is something running on your device without your permission. Someone might be recording on your device like screenshots and voice recording. You have to always check your gallery of screenshots. If you see a screenshot of your messages, websites you visit or anything that you are sure was not captured by you then you should be alert. Same thing with voice recording, if you see a lot of voice recordings that you sure did not record, then it is a hundred percent that somebody is accessing your device remotely.

How will you clean this mess?

Before you freak out if one of these things are currently happening in your phone, here is what you should do.

Install an antivirus on your phone but if you don’t like installing one because sometimes anti-virus could be annoying, you may need to reset your phone. But first you have to backup your phone before doing so.

After resetting your phone you have to carefully check those apps that you are going to install for your personal use. You know sometimes we tend to install an app then for some reason we uninstall it without knowing that the app was a virus sneaking into personal information inside our phone.

Remember that our phone does not really remove the apps we uninstalled. The cache and logs are still there in one of our phones folders. So we should be cautious with every app that we install. 

Thanks for reading. Ciao!

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