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381: ‘Tape Deck Dongle’, With Joanna Stern

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How to Protect Your Device Passcode

The number one tip I have about this is guard your device passcode precious. And if you're ever out in public and your face, because there's tricks people can pull like you guys covered this. One of the tricks they'll pull is let's say a group of people are out they seem to be celebrating a pals birthday and a stranger will say, let me get a picture of all of you here. Give me your phone and they'll take the picture. Then if they just squeeze the power button for three seconds as they hand the phone back to you, that that puts the phone in a mode where you need you don't you can't unlock it with face ID, you have

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