Only mic and camera? It should also turn off GPS, accelerometer, etc. Filming the inside of my pocket isn’t the biggest tracking concern. People are just afraid someone’s watching them masturbate all the time.
For anyone wondering how to get the same feature on your device (not only mic-camera)
- Go to developer settings (after
)
- Quick settings developer tiles
- (enable) sensors off
- Open your quick settings
- (for Samsung) you will find the tile in the 1st row 1st position
- (for aosp) you may need to add the sensors tile
- now turn this tile on
- now your camera, mic, gyroscope, etc… are off and apps will think that there’s an error with the camera or some privacy policy rule being applied
⚪ Note: this does not turn off GPS, Bluetooth, wifi, or mobile networks
EDIT: forgot to mention (as comments said)
🔴 Warning: core system services can override this setting…
a phone call will have the mic working while app calls (Whatsapp…etc) will be muted
To further expand at least for samsung:
- the mic will be re-enabled for regular phone calls
- the mic won’t be re-enabled for other calls, e.g. WhatsApp, Telegram, Whatsoever
- Go to developer settings (after
Where can I get more information? Is the software open sourced? Has it been independently audited?
Its /e/OS, a softfork of LineageOS, mostly superficial. Only GrapheneOS is extremely secure, although to be fair really degoogled LineageOS will probably be very nice too
