---
title: "iOS Passcode Security App Lock and report encryption (HIPAA)"
url: https://www.postureanalysis.com/knowledge-base/ios-passcode-security-app-lock-and-report-encryption-hipaa/
description: "There are many features of PostureScreen mobile that allow the user to turn on many security features that can help you meet your HIPAA obligations. First, the user should obviously set up their mobile device to have a password on the lock screen."
categories: ["PostureScreen, SquatScreen, LeanScreen for iPad and iPhone"]
tags: ["HIPAA", "lock", "lockscreen", "passcode", "password"]
videos:
  - id: tIsmAhTZq3w
    title: "iOS Passcode Security App Lock and report encryption (HIPAA)"
    url: https://www.postureanalysis.com/knowledge-base/ios-passcode-security-app-lock-and-report-encryption-hipaa/#video-tIsmAhTZq3w
    duration: "2:29"
publisher: "PostureCo, Inc."
source: https://www.postureanalysis.com/knowledge-base/ios-passcode-security-app-lock-and-report-encryption-hipaa/
---

# iOS Passcode Security App Lock and report encryption (HIPAA)

There are many features of PostureScreen mobile that allow the user to turn on many security features that can help you meet your HIPAA obligations. First, the user should obviously set up their mobile device to have a password on the lock screen.

Second, the user should turn on Find My on their device (Settings > [your name] > Find My) to allow remote tracking as well as ‘remote wiping’ features, so that should you ever lose your device, you can erase your data.

**Patient information and Apple iCloud:** iCloud Backup, iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive are Apple services, not part of PostureCo’s services, and no agreement with PostureCo covers them. Find My works with iCloud Backup turned off.

- **If you are a HIPAA covered entity or business associate** (most practices that bill health insurance electronically are), you should take these precautions, because Apple’s iCloud terms do not allow you to use iCloud for protected health information (PHI): turn off iCloud Backup for PostureScreen (Settings > [your name] > iCloud > iCloud Backup, or Storage > Backups, then choose this device and turn off PostureScreen); turn off “Save images to device Photos app” and “Save videos to device Photos app” in PostureScreen and keep patient photos out of the Photos app (with iCloud Photos on, they upload to iCloud; with it off, iCloud Backup can include them); and back up with PostureCo Cloud Services (Cloud Backup in the app), under a BAA we sign for U.S. healthcare practices on request, or an encrypted computer backup you control.
- **If you work in health and fitness only and are not covered by HIPAA**, these precautions are recommended but optional. Whether you take them is up to you, as long as you follow any other privacy law that applies to you.

See Section 7 of our [Terms of Service](https://www.postureanalysis.com/legal/terms-of-service/).

Third, you should turn on the password PDF security option and when you perform a screening that you plan to email, obtain a password from your client/patient which is unique only to them. This feature is found under the settings tab, and is turned on once a user puts in the master password for their clinic/company. Once this is performed, a new text box will appear on the patient data input screen, allowing for unique password input specific to that individual patient. This allows the PDF you email to be totally secure and encrypted where the patient/client will be asked for a password in order to open and view the postural analysis.

Lastly, a user can set up the application to have its own passcode upon app startup. Thereby adding yet another security feature to the security of your patient/client records.

This passcode feature will not allow any resets of the password. However, as noted in the following video, you MUST remember this passcode, as we have no way of retrieving this information by our company. So please keep track of your password. Please watch the following video for details.
[▶ Video: iOS Passcode Security App Lock and report encryption (HIPAA) (2:29)](https://www.postureanalysis.com/knowledge-base/ios-passcode-security-app-lock-and-report-encryption-hipaa/#video-tIsmAhTZq3w)