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Settings : Security & privacy
Protect against harmful apps
Scan phone for harmful apps
Play Protect helps keep your phone secure by automatically scanning your apps, including sideloaded apps,
to check for potentially harmful apps (malware).
If Play Protect finds a potentially harmful app, it stops the app from running and warns you so that you can
uninstall it.
To see the results or to rescan:
1.
Open
the Play Store app.
2.
Touch your profile icon
3.
Review the results of the latest scan, or touch Scan.
Play Protect is on by default.
To learn more,
read Google's
If your phone seems slow
If you've scanned your phone to confirm there aren't any potentially harmful apps but your phone seems
slow,
troubleshoot the
Make sure your phone can be found
Make sure your phone can be found. Find My Device allows you to remotely locate, lock, and erase your
phone.
If you ever need to find your phone, your phone will need to:
•
Be turned on
•
Be
signed in
to a Google account
•
Be connected to mobile data or Wi-Fi
•
Have
location services turned
cannot locate it.
•
Have Find My Device turned on
To check that Find My Device is on for your phone:
1.
Go to
Settings
> Security & privacy.
2.
Touch Find My Device and turn it on
To confirm that you can find your phone, go to
If you have lost your phone, consider calling your carrier to suspend your account. If your phone doesn't
have a SIM lock and it's stolen, someone could use your SIM card.
> Play Protect.
help.
issue.
on. If location services are off, you can lock or erase the phone, but
.
android.com/find
on your phone or from a computer.
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