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How to check what your phone is sharing
A short privacy pass: precise location, tracking prompts, lock-screen content, saved passwords, and the iPhone privacy log. Each tip is one screen. None of them makes a phone anonymous.
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- Privacy & SecurityHide notification text on the Android lock screenChoose show sensitive content only when unlocked, or show nothing.
- Privacy & SecurityTurn on the privacy report and read it tomorrowIt records which apps used the camera, microphone, location, and which domains they contacted.
- Privacy & SecurityStop apps from asking to track youSettings > Privacy & Security > Tracking. Turn off Allow Apps to Request to Track.
- Privacy & SecurityTurn off Precise Location for apps that do not need your doorstepSettings > Privacy & Security > Location Services, then the app. Precise Location is its own switch.
- Privacy & SecurityMake a throwaway address that forwards to youHide My Email is under your name, then iCloud. You can delete the address later.
- Privacy & SecurityShorten Auto-Lock so the screen does not stay onSettings > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock. Thirty seconds is the impatient setting.
- Privacy & SecurityRun Chrome's password checkupGoogle Password Manager has a Checkup page for breached, reused, and weak passwords.
- Privacy & SecurityStop websites from asking to send notificationsSet the Chrome default to Don't allow, then revoke the sites you already accepted.
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