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Turn off the phone entirely.
by SoftTalker 8mo ago
Turn off the phone entirely.
- kirth_gersen 8mo agoMost have internal batteries and are still "on" to a certain extent unless the battery is completely discharged.
- iamnothere 8mo agoUse one of the few phones with hardware kill switches or removable batteries.
- catlikesshrimp 8mo agoIf you cover your phone with an antielectrostatic bag it can't communicate; that is a Faraday cage. Since people around you will think you are also wearing a tinfoil hard, you had better stick to the phones with hardware switches as sibling comment mentions
- kube-system 8mo agoMost of those bags are total BS
- mulmen 8mo agoSeems easy to verify with an iPhone. Put it in the bag, transport the phone, look it up on Find My.
- kube-system 8mo agoEven easier, put any phone in the bag, call it. Does it ring? IME, yes.
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- SoftTalker 8mo agoIt's "on" enough to detect the activity needed to wake it back up. But will a powered-off phone still be pinging cell towers or making WiFi requests?
- mulmen 8mo agoYes, that's how Find My works.
- giantg2 8mo agoI get that anything emitting can be tracked and stuff. I'm looking to take a baby step where I'm at least not having every possible detail recorded and sold. That Phreeli recommendation from another user seems like exactly what I want (paired with other things like a VPN of course).
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