You can toggle mic off through quick tiles to be sure it’s off. Same as location, Bluetooth etc.
Tbh I don’t believe at all that phones record you, they leak enough info in every other way that they don’t need to spy on your conversions.
grapheneOS has a metric shittonne of features that allow much better seperation between apps, sandboxes all Google services so you can control it’s permissions (or not use/install them) and much more
You can leak a lot less data with it, not using/installing google services, using PWA/webpage shortcuts instead of apps, focusing on using FOSS software over proprietary, etc
You can toggle mic off through quick tiles to be sure it’s off. Same as location, Bluetooth etc.
Tbh I don’t believe at all that phones record you, they leak enough info in every other way that they don’t need to spy on your conversions.
grapheneOS has a metric shittonne of features that allow much better seperation between apps, sandboxes all Google services so you can control it’s permissions (or not use/install them) and much more
You can leak a lot less data with it, not using/installing google services, using PWA/webpage shortcuts instead of apps, focusing on using FOSS software over proprietary, etc
How do you know for sure though. Couldn’t they override the code? I’d be interested in a hardware solution.