Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Turn your device completely off once a week as per advice from the NSA today Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 22:50:36 +0100 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <59dc7029-32ce-5ecd-95bc-176055dc97cf@invalid.nospam> <86jzj8o4o6.fsf@example.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 6+P1XH1dsrPmyTNdeC/ipAefGkUcHRO2J0am0N3C/QY9O9M8g5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ih/TuT4waLZqi5kMEfHKcLfYxsY= sha256:gcBHKu7VkNppH9Ssi8yjzijtqOCWgbjoiPBI1An9uw8= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:141722 misc.phone.mobile.iphone:187776 Peter wrote: > Both Google's and Apple's latest phones don't allow you to turn them off > for real. The iPhones and the latest Pixels are still running Google's and > Apple's tracking activities even when you think you've turned them off. Now, I don't claim to know or care much about Apple products, but I think airtags are relatively popular? Because of that, Google were /bound/ to want to match that feature, hence the [very] new functionality to findmydevice. Yes, in a limited sense certain parts of your phone may never be "off", I suspect we don't know yet whether disabling the findmydevice feature *does* allow it to be really off. Some people were paranoid about the covid tracking feature, but you could turn it off, or not install the app, and I don't remember any actual issue with it in the end?