Mcafee Review of iPhone Internet Security features

We’re going have a look at the McAfee Internet Security suite, in particular, what it offers for an iPhone. In the first photo we have an iPhone 7 Plus with the email from McAfee giving me a link to the Mobile Protection site and also if I wanted to download on Windows or OS X  it has the link also. 

They give us an activation code. There is also a link to True Key by Intel security, however, I already use the Last Past password system so I don’t use this.

Setting up Howto

Clicking on “download” takes you to McAfee Mobile Security in the iPhone App Store which uses screenshots to introduce the features: 1) a media vault 2) contacts backup 3) find device features. It shows an example of backing up photos with the McAfee vault and also shows that if someone tries to decode the vault password then they take a snapshot of the person.

Apple Watch App Option

In the App Store, there are no reviews currently. Note that the app install offers an Apple watch App as well.

Once installed when you open it you see a welcome screen and by clicking get started I accept the license agreement and privacy notice.

On the welcome screen, we click the “get started”. 

We begin to set things up by confirming the username, which is an email address, then continue with allowing the app to send notifications because might be telling us something important about risks we’re facing.

Features: Find Device, Protect Contacts, Media Vaults

For the Find Devices option, we have location services turned on to locate us for this purpose.  We opt to protect our contacts by backing them up but we should have other iPhone backups. But it’s best to back them up as well for maximum security. After a short pause, it’s fully backed up our contacts gives us a date of the backup. Another feature is SOS which is saving the device location if your battery is low so if you’ve lost your device and the batteries run down then it will have saved the last location of the device just before the battery runs down. Next, it offers to set up our Vault. Put in your password 6 digit key. When you have a look at the media vault by entering the pin it gives the option to add photos to our vault. We can directly use our camera, I’ve taken a shot of my MacBook pro.

Protect All Devices Option

There shows next the option to protect more devices. The app menu gives you the option to let someone else know about the app, give rating or feedback, and shows the version number. It also gives you access to the license agreement and privacy notice again.

In summary, that’s the McAfee Security for mobile devices with the media vault, contacts backup and Find Device option. So now you’ve seen what Mac offers on an iOS device you should take that into account when you’re considering what Internet security system you’ll get for your protection of all your devices.

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