Can you stop your phone from listening?
How To Stop Any Smartphone From Listening to YouFollow these simple steps to ensure personal privacy when youre using an iPhone, Android or Google Pixel.
Look, no one wants to be paranoid, but we live in a surveillance society. Not just security cameras on every street corner but relatively benign-seeming things like apps that have access to your smartphones microphone recording whatever they hear, privacy be damned. Thanks to a veryhelpful guide fromEsquire UK, we can help you ensure you dont end up an object of conversation for IT contractors listening to you have sex, or Amazon employeeslistening to Alexa so they can program direct marketing ads. While youll find arguments insisting this is something average folks just dont need to worry about, theres nothing wrong with a little extra peace of mind. Get your phone and check out the appropriate models instructions below. iPhoneHeres how to stop apps that access your microphone:
Heres how to turn off Siri:
Its a little different for iOS 10:
If you arent going to use dictation:
Google PixelFor apps that use the mic:
To turn off Google Assistant:
AndroidTo turn off OK Google Voice Assistant:
Google records your searches and commands. Heres how to stop that:
There you have it. We dont know what the NSA can still do, but at least Google contractors wont be able to hear you singing in the shower anymore. Share:
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