When it comes to mobile phones, what is the safest option?

CAIRO – 13 October 2017: We are in the era of invading privacy, where hacking your mobile phone can easily ruin your life; from personal documents, passwords, media files and credit card information. All these files are only as protected as your mobile allows them to be. So which mobile phone is the most secure?

As far as the competition goes, iPhone and Android are the two most famous choices people choose between when they are buying a smartphone. Yet sometimes users might prefer economic choices and having freedom to adjust and modify their devices without having to deal with a highly secured system, that is why they would choose Android over iPhone, but this might leave them in jeopardy.

While the operating system developed by Google, Android, allows its users more freedom of interaction with applications enabling them to install these applications even if from outside of the Googleplay store, the rival's operating system, IOS, strictly prohibits that feature as it paves the way for malware which might be carried through unreliable applications.

According to TIME’s website and the founder of the cybersecurity firm White Ops,
Dan Kaminsky: Apple's iPhones are the safest as files in them are highly secured with encryption, unlike some of the older Android phones which do not have the encryption feature turned on.In an email from Kaminsky to TIMEhe described iPhone's operating system saying "Everything [in the IOS] is encrypted, and more importantly, the key to that encryption is extraordinarily difficult to extract," which means iPhones are the safer choice at the moment.

Still encrypting files and limiting unreliable applications are not enough if one does not update their software regularly and as soon as possible.

TIME stated that last year only around 50 percent of Android users updated their software to the latest OS version which is the safest, while others failed to do so, which meant they had less secured devices.