How can you protect your data, privacy, and finances if your phone gets lost or stolen?

This guide outlines proactive measures to secure mobile devices and data before loss or theft—such as strong screen locks, password managers, MFA channel choices, biometric authentication, avoiding sensitive data storage, enabling Find My/Find My Device, recording the IMEI, app locking, protecting mobile wallets, enabling encryption, and backups—and provides a post-incident checklist including remote lock/wipe, notifying banks and carriers, changing critical passwords and recovery options, reporting to authorities with the IMEI, monitoring accounts, and handling insurance.