Martin Lewis shares five digit code you need if your phone gets stolen

Martin Lewis shares six digit code you need if your phone gets stolenITV

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00:00Hash zero six

00:02Rachel's making a night star hash zero six hash. You'll get us like what looks like a series of barcodes come up

00:08Those are your IMEI numbers screen grab those email them to yourself

00:12That's the ID you'll need if your phone's nicked so that you can recognize your phone star hash zero six hash

00:17Yeah, next really important this one and you'll understand why turn off your preview notifications

00:25So, you know when you when you pay for something and they send you the text code

00:28Yeah, that comes through

00:30That's fine when your phone is unlocked and you're on it

00:33But if you have preview notifications, it will show that code on the lock screen if you turn on preview notifications

00:39It tells you you've got a message, but doesn't include the code so someone nicks your phone and then

00:45They can't see that code so turn off preview notifications and the final one I'd say is go on to your phone

00:51Look at the security settings of your particular phone and go and have a play and see what security settings there are

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