Why is it that you choose not to?
I think it would be helpful to understand your use case and how you balance your personal tolerance for risk and consequences so we can better consider users like yourself.
I think it would be helpful to understand your use case and how you balance your personal tolerance for risk and consequences so we can better consider users like yourself.
I primarily use it as a camera and tape recorder. And mobile wifi web browser with retina resolution in rare cases, all in which I specifically avoid using it to use any sites that require logging in.
I have a fake name on it. There are no contacts or email accounts set up on it.
It's not ever been activated as a cell phone.
Basically, I see no reason to have a password on it, and a password slows things down slightly and has the risk of forgetting (since I never reuse passwords), so why bother.
My Android phone that I do use as a cell phone though I have a password on it. It has similarly few personal details, but the call logs would make it easy to identify me.
Granted the iPhone's location logging though disabled might be storing info anyway, and probably the photos are GPS tagged, so those things would identify me.
If only I can find a smartphone for talk/text/web/GPS, I'd be switch in a heartbeat. I'm seriously getting sick of the all the security features that tend to bloat the device and slow it to a crawl.
That being said, if my phone was vulnerable to theft or I wasn't so careful, I would lock my screen.
I have an older phone that is basically a home remote for various things. There is no reason for it to lock, it would be annoying.
I am of an older tech generation who sees this type of security as antithetical to anonymity.