Our phones now have so much critical stuff that being able to have a backup for more dangerous situations without losing contact with everyone is very important.
In dangerous places like Brazil, it stresses me to no end to go to some places or events (concerts, football matches, street fairs and events) with my phone that has all my banking information, email, access to my files, etc.
Currently the only thing that really prevents me from just using an old backup phone for this is that you can't have WhatsApp in 2 phones, so you end up having to resort to "ancient" (just kidding) ways like calls and SMS. Unfortunately, a lot of people (at least in Latin America or from here) basically only use WhatsApp nowadays.
My current solution was to have a second SIM card with a second WhatsApp account, which at least allowed me to message people in my contact list. With the amount of scams, though, a lot of my friends do not trust this unless I personally meet then and tell them to add the second contact.
Might seem like a small issue, but for me this will be a huge help. I leave my phone with all those annoying apps that use it as 2FA, banks and everything in hour and use a strip down version to go around.
Our phones now have so much critical stuff that being able to have a backup for more dangerous situations without losing contact with everyone is very important.
In dangerous places like Brazil, it stresses me to no end to go to some places or events (concerts, football matches, street fairs and events) with my phone that has all my banking information, email, access to my files, etc.
Currently the only thing that really prevents me from just using an old backup phone for this is that you can't have WhatsApp in 2 phones, so you end up having to resort to "ancient" (just kidding) ways like calls and SMS. Unfortunately, a lot of people (at least in Latin America or from here) basically only use WhatsApp nowadays.
My current solution was to have a second SIM card with a second WhatsApp account, which at least allowed me to message people in my contact list. With the amount of scams, though, a lot of my friends do not trust this unless I personally meet then and tell them to add the second contact.
Might seem like a small issue, but for me this will be a huge help. I leave my phone with all those annoying apps that use it as 2FA, banks and everything in hour and use a strip down version to go around.