Protect against harmful apps
Scan phone for harmful apps
Play Protect helps keep your phone secure by automatically scanning your phone to check for potentially harmful
apps.
If Play Protect finds a potentially harmful app, it stops the app from running and warns you so you can uninstall it.
To see the results or to rescan:
1.
the
Play Store
app.
2.
Touch
>
My apps & games
.
3.
Do any of the following:
•
To see the results of latest scan, on the UPDATES, look at the message next to
.
•
To rescan your phone, touch
.
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, try
these
.
Be ready to find a lost phone
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
•
to a Google account
•
Be connected to mobile data or Wi-Fi
•
Have
•
Have Find My Device turned on
To check that Find My Device is on for your phone:
1.
Security
.
2.
Touch
Find My Device
and turn it on
.
3.
To learn more, touch >
Help & Feedback
.
To confirm that you can find your phone, go to
on your phone or from a computer.
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