Recommendations for phone privacy
 

I noted an unwelcome addition in the form of the latest iOS update 13.5.1 which has installed automatically to my iPhone 6 despite have automatic updates turned off.

A new Covid-19 exposure logging feature added to the health app :mad:

I would like to hear from anyone who has experience in either restoring an iPhone to a previous iOS, or who has a protective case for their phone that prevents RFID and bluetooth transmission

Until I can resolve this one way or another, I will be leaving the phone in the house, I simply do not trust that my privacy will be respected.

Absolutely unbelievable :mad:

Brian

Hi Brian.
Any good for you ?

https://www.google.com/search?safe=a...ZOrBxoQ4dUDCAw

Nope, that doesn't work Steve, it's been nobbled so you can't do that :(

On a basic level, if you’re worried about your privacy, it’s probably not wise to have a smart phone at all. Your activity is logged no matter what and the real issue is how that data is used. Fortunately, you have an iPhone and, as shown in the USA, Apple has been entirely resistant to allowing any backdoor access to data on locked phones even when demanded by national security forces. Android doesn’t have that level of corporate decision-making behind it for obvious reasons and I’d be a little more wary of data on an Android phone being accessed without consent if I had one of those. Just don’t download any Covid tracing app and I think you’ll be fine.

Yes, it's exactly that that worries me James, I already have location services turned off, and until such time as I receive the Nokia 6310i I've ordered of the bay of fleas, I'll either leave the phone in the house, or engage aircraft mode unless I want to make a call.

It's annoying that even though my phone is set in a way as to not download and install updates automatically, update 13.5.1 both downloaded and installed without any permissions or interventions :mad:

It should be interesting to see the reaction when I go along to the O2 shop to ask them for a big sim card, as I'm upgrading from an iPhone 6s to a Nokia 6310i :D

Brian :D

I can picture the Not The Nine O’Clock News sketch: ‘A Gram-o-phone, Grandad? I’m afraid we haven’t got any gram-o-phones...’ Interestingly, I’m also using a 6S with updates turned off and mine didn’t update automatically.

I'm quite looking forward to the retro look, it'll fit in well with my modern lifestyle.

I need a phone that makes and receives phone calls, I don't need to text, access the net, social media, or play games.

The only stipulation really is the need for bluetooth for handsfree calling in the car.

And the best part is, it won't take pictures of the inside of my pocket, or dial random numbers ;)

Brian :D

I have android phone and mine doesn't have the app automatically installed. I read about this last night on fb, Apple products are designed to be slow after so many years to encourage the user to upgrade more often, which is why I will never have an iPhone. The rest of the family all have them, the wife's is a 5S which is fine for her, the son has a 5c which is pretty useless for internet access and streaming music. My daughter has the 8 which seems to be fine, but I will not have one.The only Apple product I have is an iPod which I use to download music .

I’ve still got my Nokia 6310i, a great phone and only had to charge it once a week not like every day with the iPhone.

I keep the Nokia as my Saab 93 has the factory fit Nokia cradle and it just looks so right in a 19 year old car. :D

The 214 has a Cark-51 fitted, perhaps a 3310 for the car :shrug: