Do you know that freezing your app could help you from unauthorized access ?

[Perfectbaby]

There people who are so careless about their phone or medium of their investments, of course it's often said that we making investment that we should as well to store our private keys and seed phrase safe, but we haven't talked about some very important features in our phone that could also help to strengthen our security system when it comes about Bitcoin investment.

For those using android, I know most of us or nearly about 70 percent of people who are into Bitcoin investment are in one way having their investments on their phone, while some people have it on their personal computer. Some people may have external device such as hardware wallet and many more, for those using android phones or even iOS we know how people do access our phones.

We can literally go through our apps in our phone, there are features like; app freezers, sleep app, snooze app and so many more. At this point you can use the app freezer to freeze your mobile wallets such as trustwallet app, Electrum wallet or any other android wallet on your phone. This would entirely help you remove your investment from your phone were people won't be having access to your investment app.

Again, for those who do have many bank app in your phone, it would help you to hide them from people seeing it on your phone immediately they have access to your phone, maybe they could be searching for it at the moment before having that access you might have noticed that they are actually looking for something that you do not want them to see. I believe this will definitely help us at least to secure us abit from hackers or scammers.

I say make I bring this update to help us small.

Side note: app freezer do come with the phone, should you don't have it when downloading make sure to download the right app freezer.

[ZeroVinsonN]

This is a good idea. But unless the person is trying to use MY phone to hack MY phone then I really don't see how it will stop hackers or perhaps even scammers, the apps can stay frozen for a while but you will have to unfreeze them eventually for something unless you yourself are not planning on using them, especially your bank app, you wallet can stay frozen for longer because unless you are planning on moving funds out of it you don't really have much business with opening the app.
If I freeze my Opay then I will have to be unfreezing it everyday and I would rather not put myself through that kind of stress, but that's just for me.

[Bitcoin-Forever]

For those using android, I know most of us or nearly about 70 percent of people who are into Bitcoin investment are in one way having their investments on their phone, while some people have it on their personal computer.

I understand your notion here is very important to privacy

But let me clarify a few things.

Your coins aren't stored in your wallet; they're on the blockchain.

Even if someone should have access to your device, they shouldn't be able to do anything as long as you have extra security measures in place, such as using wallets that support 2FA; we have the Electrum wallet multisig feature and the use of a passphrase on your wallet before a transaction can be performed.

Am not saying we should be careless about our device with a third party, but we can also be faster than any scammer if we put all these in place, and was under attack like this, they can't perform an transaction.

Our password, app freezes, or other security measures we may take in your own approach, OP will only be device-specific, but not protect them from making their way through to perform a transaction unless we have extra security measures in place over our wallet.

[Perfectbaby]

For those using android, I know most of us or nearly about 70 percent of people who are into Bitcoin investment are in one way having their investments on their phone, while some people have it on their personal computer.

I understand your notion here is very important to privacy

But let me clarify a few things.

Your coins aren't stored in your wallet; they're on the blockchain.

Even if someone should have access to your device, they shouldn't be able to do anything as long as you have extra security measures in place, such as using wallets that support 2FA; we have the Electrum wallet multisig feature and the use of a passphrase on your wallet before a transaction can be performed.

Am not saying we should be careless about our device with a third party, but we can also be faster than any scammer if we put all these in place, and was under attack like this, they can't perform an transaction.

Our password, app freezes, or other security measures we may take in your own approach, OP will only be device-specific, but not protect them from making their way through to perform a transaction unless we have extra security measures in place over our wallet.

I completely agreed with you.. of course you are right but haven't you heard about phone gotten stolen and their money were wiped off from their account? Now, I am not talking about internal aspects which is the blockchain, but I am directly saying about the physical security of your phone and your app in it. For sure, when you have your wallet freezed there are some link you may be clicking online which could linked you directly to your wallet will no longer be that possible for the hacker to access your app or any financial apps on your phone, and even as Sarz do harassed people by asking people to open their bank app to see how much in their accounts will no longer be possible as you could say you don't have any banking app on your phone. Possibly you can say you do not come out with your transaction phone.

[PostQuantumBTC]

This is a good idea. But unless the person is trying to use MY phone to hack MY phone then I really don't see how it will stop hackers or perhaps even scammers, the apps can stay frozen for a while but you will have to unfreeze them eventually for something unless you yourself are not planning on using them, especially your bank app, you wallet can stay frozen for longer because unless you are planning on moving funds out of it you don't really have much business with opening the app.
If I freeze my Opay then I will have to be unfreezing it everyday and I would rather not put myself through that kind of stress, but that's just for me.

Privacy and security can be stressful, but I do not think it is worth it for bank apps. I will prefer to have two phones and use the phone that my wallets are not there frequently and take it only along while going out, while my privacy phone will be at home.

I still like what Perfectbaby posted but I can not do it for bank apps but I can do it to exchanges and wallet apps. Becuase I have my privacy phone at home, I do not need it.

[Son Of Blockchain (SOB)]

 Is your keys stored online or inside your phone? Cause that's one of the reasons why someone would be thinking of freezing apps relating with crypto/Bitcoin wallet for privacy (making it less visible in the home screen). Well it's a good security measure that would help in situations of physical attack my criminals.
 Like situation whereby one is on gun point and asked to open their wallet, but if someone freezes their app and in such situation you won't have need to be scared cause your crypto app won't be visible so they'll only get access to the money in traditional bank. However our keys shouldn't be stored in phone or online but offline.

[promise444c5]

It is not a bad idea .. BUT freezing you apps doesn’t fix anything, anyone that have physical or remote access to your device can see your frozen apps.. unless you also hide it and they don’t have any idea on how to check hidden apps.

I willl repeat this again.. you can avoid all this by getting a separate devices[mobile or PC]  that handles all these wallets, separately from your cold storage (recommended). 

It shouldn’t be really that hard thing to do.

[Sammye3]

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These are valid points but with the case of the bank app, there is no need to freeze the app when it's something that is always in use on a daily basis, it's best to set a 2FA to secure your earnings and save you the stress of freezing and unfreezing the bank app.

Freezing the app does not mean freezing the account, and it's not like some security measure is required to unfreeze the app, someone with that knowledge can still easily get access to your bank and wallet. Freezing the app without proper security is not really worth it, either bank or wallet.

[Frankolala]

OP, I think freezing your wallet app has nothing to do with security of your wallet because when you freeze your electrum wallet app, it only romoves it from running on the background and nothing more. It doesn't prevent scammers from compromising your wallet because your electrum wallet file is still on your wallet which has your private keys. One features of freeze app is to also help keep your battery from draining fast. It doesn't safe you from unauthorized access only if it's someone that wants to access your phone physically.

You should add passphrase to your seed phrase and don't connect your wallet to random site. If you can get a hardware wallet or install Electrum cold storage wallet, it will be safer than using online wallets. If you have am old phone that you're not using, you can use it for only your wallet and keep if offline all the time by switch of blue tooth and every features that can connect you online. On airplane mood.

[The Founding Titan]

If someone was to hack your device all of your frozen apps will still be subject to hack, rather than trying to protect one particular app you should be protecting your device, most times when I freeze my apps I do it because I want to save battery, I don't want people who use my phone to know I have those app and I just want then off my screen, I've never really considered it to be something that will protect from hacking.
I think keeping a separate device will serve even more than freezing the wallet, it might not seem like much but people need to know you have something to maybe even consider trying to hack into it, a secret device no one knows about will give a small amount of security but it's better then nothing.