Tips: Keeping Your Information Safe; Tips: Managing Indicators - Blackberry Bold 9900 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® device from being compromised, such as
avoiding leaving your device 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 device data if your device
is lost, stolen, or corrupted by an unforeseen issue.
For full instructions, click the links under Related information at the bottom.
Set a password
Encrypt contacts and files
Back up your device data
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Tips: Managing indicators

Indicators tell you that there is something new or updated, such as a new message, voice 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.
Remove the new item indicator
Remove the unopened message indicator
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 backup tool in the BlackBerry® Desktop Software to
back up your device data. To download the BlackBerry Desktop
Software, from your computer, visit
desktop and select the appropriate option for your computer.
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:
• Open all of your messages by clicking on them. If you
cannot find all of your unopened messages in your inbox,
look in your messages folders.
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