Smartphone Tips: Smartphone is listening to your conversations, protect your privacy in 6 easy ways..

Privacy and data security (Smartphone Privacy Tips) are becoming the biggest concern of smartphone users. As technology is developing, scammers are also becoming advanced. Users are not only being spied on the data stored in the smartphone but they are also being cheated. Many reports have expressed concern that users can be spied on through the camera, microphone, and search history of the smartphone.

Many times you must have also noticed that the product you talk about, then you start seeing advertisements of the same on the smartphone. Now in such a situation, the question arises whether the smartphone is listening to us. If so, how can it be stopped? Here we are giving you information about which settings we have to change to stop it.

How to know whether the smartphone is listening or not?

Many times we give access to the camera, microphone, and storage to the apps installed in the smartphone. By doing this, these apps keep an eye on our every activity. In such a situation, we must give only the necessary permissions to the apps present in the smartphone. One should avoid giving unwanted access to such apps.

Often the phone uses the camera and mic for spying. If the camera or mic of your phone is activated without need, then you can find out about it. Whenever the camera or mic of the phone is activated, the green light blinks on the screen.

Manage app permissions

To manage the permissions of the apps installed in the smartphone, you have to go to the Settings menu of the phone. After this, you have to manage the app permissions by going to Permission Manager under Privacy.

Here you will be able to see which accesses have been given to the app like microphone, camera, and location. To keep privacy strong, we should give only necessary access to the apps.

Update software and security
Smartphone companies offer security updates for their devices every month or at regular intervals. Along with this, keep updating the apps installed in the phone from time to time. Keeping the phone up-to-date strengthens security and keeps the phone safe from spyware and malware.

Disable voice assistant
If you do not use voice assistants like Google Assistant, Siri or Alexa in your phone, then keep it off. To keep the voice assistant off, go to voice assistant in settings and disable it. This will turn on the phone's microphone only when needed.

Avoid public Wi-Fi
Public Wi-Fi is insecure. In such a situation, avoid free Wi-Fi for data use. This can lead to data theft and hacking. If you are forced to use public Wi-Fi, then definitely turn on VPN.

Do not download third-party apps
Install apps in your smartphone only from Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Along with this, you should avoid installing apps from third party app stores.

Reboot the phone from time to time
Restart the smartphone once a week. With this, if any spyware or malware is active in the phone, it will stop working. Along with this, the background processing of the apps also stops.

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