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How to See People Trying to Unlock Your Smartphone

Posted on the 02 January 2023 by L'Express

Your Android phone has very useful and often overlooked functions, thanks to the genius of certain applications. By configuring your smartphone, you will be able to find out, with a photo, who grabbed your device and tried to unlock it, without your consent. No more dispute will be possible and the malicious person will be confused, selfie in support.

Easy to set up, you will now be much quieter, managing to effectively protect your privacy and personal data.

Who is trying to unlock your smartphone: Download the application

This operation consists in fact of acting on the parameters of your telephone, those which are already available. You have to tell the phone what to do in response to a particular action. You have already done it: choose a particular melody for a call from your mother-in-law, trigger the appearance of the photograph of your correspondence. In terms of telephony, this is called setting up “macros”.

To make macros, on your smartphone, it is not always easy. The specialists have fun, your attempts have left you hungry. Online for a few weeks, the new version of this application helps you, step by step, to create new functions on your phone. It is “Macrodroid 5.28.8”. Easy to handle, it allows thanks to its functions to create new functions on your phone. ” Take a selfie, whenever someone enters a wrong unlock code. This is the mission that you will entrust to your phone via this application. It will help you better secure your smartphone in minutes. To do this, you will be asked to link two actions: trigger the camera and enter an incorrect code.

Trying to unlock a smartphone – Source: spm

Follow the step-by-step instructions

The application comes in the form of two columns. One with a red background: the list of triggers and the other with a blue background: the list of actions. Another represents possible restrictions, symbolized by the color green.

Your mission will be to search in triggers: “events on device / connection attempt failure”, and select the action “camera / take a front photo”. The application will present a dialog box to validate your choices. Once the connection is established, the macro set up, it will be effective. You will be able to say that you have succeeded, not without pride. To make sure, try to access your phone, by entering an incorrect code, the camera will be triggered and you can find your selfie in the photo gallery.

Woman surprised by the selfie present in her photo gallery

Woman surprised by the selfie in her photo gallery – Source: spm

Using another manipulation, still in “Macrodroid”, you can set up another “macro” that will allow you to discover the photo of the person who unlocks your phone, knowing the code beforehand…A beautiful gallery of selfies awaits you.

Downloading the app, following the instructions, possibly following a tutorial or two, that’s how you’re going to make your phone more secure.

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