WeChat – Protect your account

WeChat is our most popular topic by far.  It always amazes us that people don’t protect their accounts. As the saying goes ‘you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone’. Protect your account BEFORE you lose it…and all of your contacts.

It’s not rocket science, trust us. It’s all in the settings. The point of this protection is to prevent someone else from stealing your password and locking you out of your own account. If your account is accessed from a new device, you have to verify that device with WeChat.

You can use WeChat on any mobile device, no matter if it’s Android or iOs. We’re talking tablets, iPods, iPads, etc. Since WeChat is an app that you add to these devices, it can’t be used on a PC, neither laptop or desktop. Yes, you can chat on a computer but only with Web WeChat.

Even though you can use WeChat on any mobile device, you still need a smartphone to enable the SMS verification. WeChat limits this verification to one profile per phone number. If you change your phone, make sure you unlink your old number from WeChat. Here’s a post on exactly how to do that:

WeChat – Change your Phone Number and Email 

We’re going to run through all of this in a new series starting next week. Stay tuned.

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4 thoughts on “WeChat – Protect your account”

  1. Hye…

    Wechat actually not very secure…My friend show me that he can hack my wechat only with ID & Phone number. So is that any setting that you can share for wechat security?

    1. He can’t hack your WeChat account with your phone number, that’s for sure. If he has your phone, yes. If he doesn’t have your phone, no. Thanks for commenting.

        1. It doesn’t matter if he has your phone number and your ID. He has to also have your phone and/or access to your linked email account. Just because he has your phone number doesn’t mean he can hack your account. WeChat sends the verification to your phone, not his. They will also use email but that email has to be linked to your WeChat account.

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