GuardMe: Who Touched My Phone

The concept is great, the app is eloquent. However, the description offers minimal insight. It does not photograph when you unlock your phone, it photographs when you open this app. So you must leave it in the foreground when you lock your phone for it to work. Additionally, there is a delay, and I tested it; if you swipe out of the app before it manages to capture, you bypass the photograph and nothing is recorded. Also, the passcode sound alert is when THIS app’s custom entry passcode is typed wrong - not when your phone’s lock screen passcode is typed wrong. There are no instructions for use to make sure I’m not missing anything, and very few customization features to toy with. I’m sure that actually capturing a photo upon unlock by a third party app does not fall within the security parameters by Apple. However, I believe there could still be some creative workarounds to eloquently trigger a log more quickly and efficiently without being too intrusive. I would love to see two things; an iCloud sync so I can check the log from another device in case it is stolen, as well as an improvement in the activity log UI. I have to click the trash can to delete one photo at a time, and type my passcode each time. Why is there no select box or ‘select all’ button?

Solve these three problems, 1- Adding the feature of taking pictures without knowing the phone code, meaning that whoever touches the phone and enters the code by mistake once, it will immediately take a picture of him, and adding 2- Automatically delete the saved pictures weekly, 3 days or monthly so as not to fill the device with useless and boring pictures 3- Adding a new second system with this beautiful system that works for complete monitoring and adding a second system for secondary monitoring, meaning it is optional for you to choose which of them works for the current time, the system that I want you to add and it is for yourself, meaning that I am currently using the phone and I know the code, meaning I do not want the application to take pictures of me because it is useless because it is my phone and I am not organized when I want to change the system for my children when it takes everything by opening or by mistake.

Unfortunately, apps such as these are a necessity in today’s world. Everything is online and/or on our phones. Hence, GuardMe is here to add another layer of (vital!) security to your phone to not only keep it safer, but to catch those nosey snoops red-faced-handed-you get the idea. So, stop putting off hitting that download button before it is too late!