Right tools can help protect your smartphone

There’s a lot of vital information on our phones, but there are ways to protect that information in case it gets lost or stolen. Tools for Apple Inc.’s iPhone and phones running Google Inc.’s Android software can back up your stored data, encrypt it so nobody else can use it, track the location of a stolen phone, or just shut down a lost device so it’s no longer usable.

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