Tips: Keeping Your Information Safe; Tips: Managing Indicators - Blackberry PORSCHE DESIGN P'9981 User Manual

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Tips: Keeping your information safe

You can take some simple steps to help prevent the information on your BlackBerry smartphone from being
compromised, such as avoiding leaving your smartphone unattended.
Research In Motion recommends that you regularly create and save a backup file on your computer, especially
before you update any software. Maintaining a current backup file on your computer might allow you to recover
smartphone data if your smartphone is lost, stolen, or corrupted by an unforeseen issue.
Set a smartphone password.
Encrypt contacts and files.
Back up your smartphone data to your computer.
Back up your smartphone data to a media card.
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Turn on encryption, 286

Tips: Managing indicators

Indicators tell you that there is something new or updated, such as a new message, voice mail message, or feed, or
they inform you of the status of something, such as the battery or network connection. Indicators often appear on
app icons, new content within apps, and at the top of the Home screen.
For a complete list of indicators, visit www.blackberry.com/docs/smartphones. Click your smartphone model, and
Icon Guide .
then click the
Remove the new item indicator
Remove the unopened message indicator
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On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
Click Security > Password.
On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
Click Security > Encryption.
Use the BlackBerry Desktop Software to back up your
smartphone data to your computer. To download the
BlackBerry Desktop Software, from your computer, visit
www.blackberry.com/desktop
appropriate option for your computer.
On the Home screen, click the Setup icon. In the Setup
section, click Device Switch > Save Data.
Open each item that has this indicator. For example, to
.
remove it from the Messages icon, click the icon.
In the Messages app, do one or more of the following:
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Tips and shortcuts
and select the