The Lymington Directory April May 2019
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Hopefully you have never been in the<br />
situation of having lost your mobile phone,<br />
or worse, had it stolen. Of course you know<br />
what to do if that should happen, right? On<br />
the off-chance you don’t have a disaster<br />
recovery plan already, here’s some things<br />
you should consider.<br />
You will need to track and maybe then<br />
wipe your phone. You have of course got<br />
suitable services activated such as Find my<br />
Phone for iPhone http://tinyurl.com/<br />
y552f7vw (takes you to Apple Support) or<br />
Android http://tinyurl.com/ookxcau (takes<br />
you to the online device manager).<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are other services you can use, such<br />
as the Prey Project https://<br />
preyproject.com/ which allows you to also<br />
add other sorts of devices from other<br />
manufacturers including computers, so you<br />
can keep track of all of them in one place.<br />
HELP, WHERE’S MY PHONE?<br />
answers to any security questions you may<br />
have set up with your mobile service<br />
provider.<br />
You may also be asked for further<br />
information, such as the name and number<br />
of someone you have dialled recently. If<br />
that is the case, and you don’t have<br />
complete recall, you may want to look out<br />
the information before calling them, so you<br />
don’t have to ring off and get back to them.<br />
It would be a good idea to find out from<br />
your service provider what their procedure<br />
is to get a new sim from them. Much better<br />
to know what your particular provider will<br />
want from you beforehand, than find out<br />
that you don’t have the information when<br />
you need it.<br />
So go on, get started sorting it out now!<br />
<strong>The</strong> one thing they all have in common is<br />
that you need to install or activate them<br />
before anything happens to your devices.<br />
So don’t put it off, do something now, it<br />
may be too late after the event!<br />
You’ve got your phone sorted, worst case<br />
you can delete all the data, what else?<br />
Recover your mobile number. Unless you<br />
want to tell all your contacts and the<br />
businesses that use texts for security that<br />
they need to record a new number, you’ll<br />
want to keep your old number. And for<br />
that you need your provider to cancel the<br />
old sim and issue you a new sim with your<br />
old number on it.<br />
To do so, you will undoubtedly have to<br />
jump through a number of hoops to prove<br />
who you are. So make sure you know the<br />
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