{"id":20687,"date":"2020-05-27T13:34:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T17:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=20687"},"modified":"2022-04-27T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T18:51:25","slug":"update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/update\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Update Your Android Apps: Start With dfndr security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the drawbacks people perceive for having a great phone and <strong>lots of wonderful apps<\/strong> is the need to keep all them updated. The more apps you have, the more often you\u2019ll receive reminders about them. Even though truth be told, most apps update pretty fast these days, it can seem like a bit of a bother.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, there\u2019s one great reason to always stay on top of things and update your Android apps whenever they offer one. And it may just be the best reason of all: <strong>SECURITY<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMost apps will update for a variety of different reasons, but one of the most common reasons is security,\u201d says Emilio Simoni, Research Director at dfndr lab. \u201cEngineers are always testing and discovering vulnerabilities in their apps, so even if an update has no new features, for your own good, you should make it a habit to update. Or, set your device to update apps automatically.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Why You Should ALWAYS Update dfndr security<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dfndr security&#8217;s main objective is to keep you safe. That is the reason why you should always do updates with dfndr security immediately when you receive notice of them. Our antivirus database is <strong>constantly being updated, often with the defense against the latest, most widespread threats<\/strong> &#8211; so if there\u2019s ONE app you want to keep up to date, make it dfndr security.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Why not take a moment and check now to see if your drndr security is up to date?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Follow the instructions from Google below to make sure your dfndr security app always updates automatically:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open the <strong>Google Play Store<\/strong> app.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tap <strong>Menu<\/strong> &gt; and then &gt; <strong>My apps &amp; games<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Select dfndr security<\/strong> as the app you want to update.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tap <strong>More<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tap <strong>Enable auto update.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>dfndr security will then update automatically when updates are available. To turn off automatic updates, just uncheck the box.\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is what the <\/span><b>Enable Auto Update<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> looks like when selected:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot_2020-05-26-18-51-47-732_com.android.vending.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20688 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot_2020-05-26-18-51-47-732_com.android.vending-163x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot_2020-05-26-18-51-47-732_com.android.vending-163x300.jpg 163w, https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot_2020-05-26-18-51-47-732_com.android.vending-557x1024.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot_2020-05-26-18-51-47-732_com.android.vending.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Set Your Android Apps To Update Automatically<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Android lets you control automatic updating so that it always occurs only when you\u2019re connected to WiFi. Setting to Auto Update with WiFi is a great way to make sure all your apps are always up to the second.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s how to make that happen:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open the <strong>Google Play Store<\/strong> app.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tap <strong>Menu<\/strong>, <strong>Menu<\/strong> and then <strong>Settings<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tap <strong>Auto-update apps<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select the <strong>Over Wi-Fi only<\/strong> option to automatically update apps only when connected to Wi-Fi.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you need to do an emergency update and you have no WiFi you can override this setting.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Viruses, Hackers, and Malware Are Out There.\u00a0 Keep them OUT!<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re seeing lots of aggressive activity among hackers since the start of the Coronavirus Pandemic,\u201d Emilio reminds us, \u201cIf you keep your dfndr security always app up-to-date it\u2019s going to give you the best protection we have to make sure you can use the web safely.\u201d Simoni concludes: \u201cAnd right now, with social distancing still in effect in so many places, you want to make sure your access to the web is safe and secure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s one great reason to always stay on top of things and update your apps whenever they offer one: SECURITY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":20690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[30,747,210,12041,438],"class_list":["post-20687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-tutoriais","tag-android","tag-android-apps","tag-apps","tag-dfndr-security","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20693,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20687\/revisions\/20693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}