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This list of apps and technological devices are recommendations that will help you improve your individual security condition.
From this list of suggestions, all serve as a contribution to the situation in the country in terms of public security.
Whether it’s an AirTag, sharing your location on Whatsapp or downloading apps, everything helps improve your integrity.
Mexico is among the 20 countries with the most violence in the world, based on an estimate released by World Population Review. The figure helps us understand why it is convenient for you to have apps or devices that collaborate with you in your security.
Within this list of World Population Review it is noted which are the most dangerous nations, due to the large number of deaths per 100 thousand inhabitants. At the head are El Salvador, Honduras and Venezuela.
At the global level, of the countries that surpass Mexico for the rate of violence they register are Colombia, Brazil and South Africa.
Regarding Mexico, the place it occupies in this list is due to the serious situation it faces with very crude cases such as the disappearance and subsequent death of Debanhi Escobar. Like this, there have been multiple cases of insecurity, which show the state of defenselessness in which citizens find themselves, so in this series of app and device recommendations, we give you the best advice for your security.
Of the apps of maps, Google Maps is one of the most practical to geolocate yourself with the help of your smartphone and has an interesting function that will help you take advantage of the services it has.
You just need to enter your username that is in the upper right.
Within the displayed menu, choose the option to share location and in this way you can share it with the users you choose.
Based on an estimate from AppMagic, the platform projected which were the most used map apps in the United States and the projection was as follows. Googlpe Maps was placed in first place, with almost 3 billion downloads, followed by Waze, with more than one billion downloads, and GPS with 271 thousand downloads.
One of the most loved features of Whatsapp is location sharing and it is very easy to activate.
Open a conversation with the user with whom you are going to share your location, you identify this by going to the text field and pressing the plus sign to the right of the field.
From the options that will be displayed, you must choose the one to share your location and that’s it, you can now share your location in periods of 15 minutes, one hour and 8 hours.
In this option, you just have to be careful to choose the option to always share in the app menu, otherwise the function will be intermittent. It should be noted that this function is irregular in areas without internet or inside the Metro if you are in Mexico City.
It helps to share your location quickly and you can download it on Google Play or App Store.
In a survey conducted by the app, it found that 83 percent of women feel insecure walking alone at night. The functionality of this app is that it shares with your selected contacts your route to a destination and marks a certain time in which you will have to arrive.
If you do not show up at your final destination, an alert will be sent to your contacts. It also asks you for a unique password with which you can close your alert route and confirm that you are under protection.
This social network allows you to interact with users of the platform, who are close to the area where you are. “Report incidents, share your location, lean on a Sorora community and let’s generate the changes we need together,” explains the app.
This application creates circles in which you can integrate users you consider to be family members, who know where you are at all times, in addition to offering services such as private chats between users and tracking of a device when it has been lost.
This function has become one of the most controversial apps, because although it is helpful to find a user, the services it offers are questionable by some users.
“Know more. Worry less. That’s the power of mSpy, the app that lets you find out what they do on your phone and on the Internet. And they won’t even know you’re using it,” the app explains.
This app allows you to set up a list of trusted contacts and when launching an alert they will receive an SMS indicating the emergency situation and your location.
One of Apple’s most popular accessories has also become a benchmark that today reminds us how important communication has become in the market and the interest generated by its use, especially since it is a device that has managed to demonstrate its effectiveness, especially when used for critical situations, such as the safety of the wearer.