HTG Explains: So You Lost Your Smartphone, Now What?

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Phones get stolen or lost everyday. With a plethora of data ripe for identity-theft on it, a lost phone can easily make your blood run cold. Take a deep breath, How-To Geek will talk you through this.

It happened to me just last week. My iPhone 4 hadn’t left my sight in the year that I had it, but one tiny 5-second window of opportunity was all it took for a thief to snatch it up. Luckily for me, I was prepared enough to not worry about someone stealing my private information, but I knew I wasn’t seeing that phone ever again. If this happens to you, or you’re just prone to losing your phone, taking some precautionary steps will do you a world of good, but even if you weren’t entirely prepared, there may still be something you can do. Let’s look at the process step by step.

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