- When we think of spring cleaning,
we tend to think of things around the house,
maybe even cleaning up files on a computer
if your computer hard drive is getting full,
but how many of you actually think
about apps like Twitter, or your Amazon Prime accounts,
your Netflix account, or even your bank account?
Yes, there is some spring cleaning
that you need to do there
that could protect you from being hacked.
I'm gonna walk you through all of that
and show you what you need to know to protect yourself
and keep your life from being a mess in that area.
Let's get into it.
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So how long have you been on Twitter?
How long have you been an Amazon Prime subscriber?
How long have you had an Apple ID?
If your answer to any of these questions
is over a few years, five, six years, even longer,
then there's a chance that you may have had several phones,
several different third party apps,
that connect to these services
that you never disconnected and never de-authorized,
which opens you up to hackers.
So, I'm gonna walk you through, on both iOS and Android,
some apps and services,
that we're going to de-authorize the old phones,
that we're going to de-authorize third party apps
that are connected to them,
so that we can make your life safer.
Starting with iOS.
So this is the iPhone 13 Pro Max, alpine green.
I'm going to jump into my social media folder,
and these are gonna be similar for the different apps
you're gonna look through on Android and iOS,
beginning with Twitter.
I've been on Twitter quite some time.
So I'm gonna go into my settings here on Twitter,
Settings and privacy.
This is again on the mobile app,
and then what you'll see is Security and account access.
That's gonna be a similar menu option
in many of your social media apps,
Security and account access.
They may word it the differently,
but it's generally something along those lines.
So I'm gonna go into the Apps and sessions portion of that,
and you'll see it load.
Now I have gone through periodically and cleaned this up,
but I haven't done it in some time.
So I have apps in here that I have not used
in quite some time to connect with Twitter.
Like I have Eventbrite here, Mobile Nations Passport,
signed in there to make comments,
Disqus, Clubhouse Social Audio.
So what you'll do when you wanna de-authorize one of these
is you're just gonna go ahead and tap on it,
and then you'll see the permissions.
In this case, the permissions
for the Eventbrite Social Stream app here are read only.
You can only read to your feed.
The apps you really wanna be weary of
are the ones that can read and write to your feed,
and there are some that have access
to even read and write when you have credit cards
and different things involved.
We're gonna get into those in a minute.
So I'll tap on Revoke app permissions,
and then go out of that,
and then when I go back into it,
you'll see that it is no longer in that list.
So you definitely wanna go into Apps and sessions
on Twitter, and de-authorize any third party apps
that you know are no longer currently using.
And I'm gonna show you briefly how to do this on Instagram.
I haven't logged into any third party apps on my IG account,
but you may have.
So we're going to open up Instagram,
let's get into that, there we go,
and then we're gonna hit the hamburger menu up top,
go into Settings,
and from there, we're going to hit Security.
And then you see right here, it says Data and History,
Apps and websites.
For me, you see, I have no active apps
that are accessing my Instagram account,
so it says you don't have any active authorized apps,
but if you do have some there
that you haven't used in some time,
go ahead and deactivate, de-authorize,
unauthorize those accounts, those third party apps.
And I'm gonna go into Facebook now,
we're gonna do the same thing,
because again, you have a lot of commerce taking place
on these apps and through these apps.
So we're jumping into Facebook.
We're gonna hit hamburger menu
and after we hit the hamburger menu,
we're gonna go to Settings and privacy.
You can go ahead and tap on Settings,
and then we're going to go down to,
let's get to that, Permissions.
And again, in a lot of apps,
these items will be in a Permissions,
in a Security menu,
so we're going to Permissions here, Apps and Websites.
And then when it loads that,
you'll see the different third party apps
and websites that are accessing your account,
that are accessing your content.
And you guys are always doing those tests,
those quizzes, all that type of stuff,
so those things are gaining third party access
to your account.
And as you can see here,
I have some stuff from like 2012,
that I haven't even touched,
actually, even from 2011.
Let's keep going down.
Clearly, I have not touched this in quite some time.
So, continuing to go down here, the list,
I used to write for parents.com,
so you see back in 2011, I had them authorized,
and continuing down, Profile Maker, TabSite App.
I have stuff in my Facebook account.
AppBrain, Mahalo, Amplify, Socialite, MacHeist,
I have stuff going down to 2010.
I'm gonna keep going.
So it looks like 2010 is the latest I have content
that was authorized.
So, this is probably gonna be easier
from a computer, from a desktop,
but from here, from mobile,
I can go through all of these different apps
that are showing actively connected to my Facebook account,
which means, if they're not updating
their third party software,
they could be open to getting hacked,
and by extension you getting your account hacked.
So sometimes when you have had your Facebook account hacked,
and you don't know where it came from, how that happened,
it may be be because you have some third party app,
website, plugin that's connected to your account,
that's been compromised,
and access to your account has been gained
through that means.
So you wanna go through this Apps and Websites menu here,
and go ahead and remove permissions for all those things.
So let's jump into Feeddler,
which I haven't used since 2011.
You jump into that, you see logged in with Facebook,
added on October 14th, 2011.
I'm just gonna go ahead and tap Remove.
This will remove all your connections.
I don't wanna delete posts that I used to post
on my timeline via Feeddler,
so I'm gonna go ahead and click Remove,
and once you click Remove, you see you remove
Feeddler from Apps and Websites,
so now that will not be in my list.
So that's Facebook.
Let's also go ahead and take a look
at your Google services now that we've gone
through a couple different social media apps.
So, you know what I'm going to do is,
just because it's Google and I can,
I'm gonna grab the S22 Ultra here,
and I'm gonna go ahead and we are going to log into Chrome
on the S22 Ultra,
and we're gonna go ahead and go into Google here.
So for Google, we're gonna go ahead
and click on the profile picture,
then click on Manage your Google Account.
Once you click on Manage your Google Account,
you're gonna go to Data & privacy.
Once you go to Data & privacy,
you're going to see your History settings, Ad settings,
personalized search settings, all kind of information.
So then as you scroll down,
you'll see Data from apps and services you use.
Once you see that, you'll see you have a heading
that says, Third-party apps with account access.
I have 19 of them.
So you're gonna go ahead and tap on that,
and you'll see all of your things, all your devices,
all the services the apps that have third party access
to your Google account.
I review products, obviously,
so there's quite a few things here that I have
which have access to this account,
because I'm always testing different things,
but you may not.
You may have old apps, old products
that are old services, that are connected
to your Google account.
So you can go ahead here, tap on any one of those.
I'll just tap on Zoom here just so you can see it.
You're gonna tap on it, and you'll see it expand,
and there you go, you can tap on REMOVE ACCESS,
and that will now remove access
of that third party app to your account.
So that's one of the services.
Let's take a look at Amazon as well.
So I'm gonna open up my Amazon account,
and we're gonna click the hamburger menu there,
and that's gonna bring up all the different things,
and then we'll tap on Account,
then we're gonna scroll down to,
let's get there, let's get there,
we're gonna scroll down to where it says,
Manage content and devices.
Now again, the reason why we're going in and doing this,
is because you have credit card information in here
so it may not be as important
with certain social media accounts,
because there is no really relevant,
any pertinent, personal information,
but with Amazon prime, you have all kinds
of access to your financial information.
So, I'm looking at all the devices right now
that are connected to my Amazon account,
and so you can see my Echos, Fire TVs,
Alexa, Kindle, Prime Video, Amazon Music, on four devices.
And so these may just be old devices
that you've getting gotten rid of.
So you might wanna go in there,
and I've done this one as well,
but you can see I have quite a few still in there
with Amazon installed on several devices.
You may have older devices that are stored there
and you wanna go ahead and remove those.
So they're just a bunch of different things there
that you can go ahead and remove in Amazon,
and that is going to make your account more secure.
Go ahead and, and lock that down.
You can go into the first tab also, which is Content,
and tap on Apps, and see all the apps
that you have here, and see if you want to actually remove.
Like PlayStation Vue, RIP, is no longer a thing,
so you can go in there, and you can tap on that,
and you can make changes, remove it,
do whatever you need to do.
You can tap on a bunch of things at once,
and then select whatever actions, bulk actions are available
for those multiple items,
add from library, Remove from Library.
That's just spring cleaning.
That's not necessarily hacker proof stuff,
but that's just cleaning up your account,
So you don't necessarily have all this stuff
just sitting in there that's no longer active while
you're already in there removing devices from the account.
So that's two services, Google and Amazon,
that you might wanna look out for as well
in removing content.
And now, let's get into one
that's really important, your banking.
So I'm gonna jump into my bank account.
We're not gonna show that obviously on camera,
but I'll go ahead and get to where we need to go.
And again, with the banking,
it's going to be a similar thing to some of the others,
where once you get into it,
you'll see something somewhere eventually
that will say like, Security,
like I'm going into Security Center in this one,
and I'm gonna see if it's right in there,
and you can see, there it is.
I have eight devices which have access
to my bank account right here,
and it shows me right there up top, devices, eight total.
Keep track of your devices
and manage their access to your account.
So I'm gonna go ahead and tap on that,
and now I can see which devices
have accessed my account last and at what time.
And as you can see again, they're all relatively recent
because when I wipe and refresh and take care of all that
with the devices I review, it removes them from here
once I have removed access from that.
But, if you have a device that's been lost,
anything like that, you might wanna go in here
to My devices, and remove those devices
so that they no longer have access to your bank account
through the app on the phone
if somebody, for instance, gets a hold of those devices.
And as you can see at the bottom of my account,
where it says Deactivated devices,
it also says, you don't have
any deactivated devices right now.
So you can, again, you can do this on mobile,
many times you can do this directly from the desktop,
maybe the app you're using does not allow you
to do that on mobile.
So that's banking.
And one more I wanna go into while we're here.
For those of you with iOS devices,
we're gonna jump into the Settings and the Apple ID.
If you have upgraded phones, switched phones,
you'll see in your Apple ID, all the devices.
As you can see again, reviewing products,
you're not gonna see as many,
but if you're a family of four,
and have upgraded your phones every two or three years,
you could, technically, with family sharing and all that,
have quite a few devices in here.
You can see I currently have of quite a few,
'cause I just haven't removed some
of the ones I've reviewed recently.
So I've got several iPhones, a few different iPads,
different Apple TVs, a few smart TVs
and multiple apple watches.
And again, most of that is stuff that I have reviewed,
I am currently reviewing, or have to return still,
and I haven't disconnected them.
So you might want to go in there, and not might,
but definitely, if you've sold a device,
if you've end-of-lifed one of your devices, you've upgraded,
you're gonna wanna go in here to your Apple ID
on your iPhone, and remove old devices from your account
so you can secure and lock that down.
And that is app spring cleaning on both Android and iOS.
If you have any other questions
about keeping your third party app access neat and tidy,
keeping any of the other app accesses neat and tidy,
go ahead and leave those in the comments below,
I'll get to them.
Love chatting with you.
as always I'm Tshaka Armstrong for Reviews.org.
Don't take it lightly that you spent
your time with us today,
I will catch you on the next video.