Digital Natives are described as a generation who possess a different relation to information technology, including mobile phones. Mobile phones have quickly gone from strictly communication devices to rather sophisticated mobile computers. Because of an increase in capabilities, there is a need to ensure control over the mobile phone environment. One strategy that can be implemented to control the mobile phone environment is to amplify the severity and vulnerability of threats that can target mobile phones by introducing fear appeals. This study aimed to investigate how digital natives experienced fear in relation to their phones, exercising the idea of how well fear appeals would work in this context and if other aspects impact the digital native’s security behavior. This was done by conducting semi-structured interviews with digital natives and analyzing the answers against the aspects of the protection motivation theory model. It was concluded that fear did not influence digital natives but rather other aspects, such as the convenience of use.