This hub collects every tactical guide that eliminates mobile telemetry, kills location logging, removes app residue, shuts down cross app tracking, and isolates your phone from the surveillance layers baked into modern mobile operating systems.
Mobile Telemetry + Device Logs + Location Layer
This hub collects every tactical guide that eliminates mobile telemetry, shuts down location logging, removes app residue, isolates app behavior, and prevents cross-tracking. If you want your phone to stop bleeding identifiers, start here.
Each guide looks down a different layer of mobile exposure. The key pillar for this hub is Wipe Your Phone Footprint Today. Start there if you want the full sequence. Start with the Digital Footprint Hub if you haven’t erased identifiers yet.
Many of the guides are still in the planning stages and will be linked and updated as they are released, so keep checking back for updates.
LAST UPDATED: Nov 2025
Device + Telemetry + Mobile layer
This hub owns anything tied to:
- OS telemetry
- app permissions
- background signals
- motion + sensor logs
- app residue
- device logs
- identifier rebuild
- SIM metadata
- location tracking
- Bluetooth + WiFi probes
- cross app tracking
- radio fingerprinting
- phone-bound compartmentalization
Start Here
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- Phone Privacy Fundamentals
- The Mobile Privacy Starter Checklist
- Make Your Phone Invisible
- Wipe Your Phone Footprint Today
- What to Do First When You Lose Your Phone
If you want to see how your phone is actually exposing you, start with the map.
Related Master Guide
The master guides give you the system level defenses behind the tactical steps. Each of these expands the footprint work into system level defenses.
- Operational Privacy: From Setup to System
Device Telemetry Kill Switches
- Disable the Coordinates: How to Kill Location Logging on GrapheneOS
- OS-Level Lockdown Checklist
- Android Permission Purge
- iOS Telemetry Reduction
App Containment and Behavior Isolation
- How to Use App Sandboxes Without Breaking Your Workflow
- Build Compartmentalized App Setups: Personal / Work / High Risk
- How to Kill Background Sync & Telemetry
- Remove Cross App Tracking on Android and iOS
Cloud, Sync, and Account Metadata
- How to Stop iCloud From Rebuilding Device Metadata
- Apple / Google Account Compartmentalization (low signal accounts, device separation)
Location Privacy and Movement Safety
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- Your Phone Is a Snitch and How to Shut It Up
- Bluetooth + WiFi probe prevention
- Motion metadata leaks
- BLE beacons
- Kill Mobile Phone Location Logging
- Movement telemetry removal
- Safe phone separation
Radio and Carrier Level Tracking
- How to Stop Carrier Level Profiling
- Force Secure DNS on Mobile
- Mobile Hotspot Privacy
- How SIMs Tie You to Your Identity (and How to Avoid It)
Hardware, Sensors, and Local Data
- How to Disable Sensors Without Root
- Local Storage Lockdown
- Private Photo & Media Workflow
- How to Turn a Dead Phone Into a Private Vault
- How to Use a Burner Phone
Quick Checks
- Phone Privacy Audit: 15-Minute Checklist
- What’s Exposing You Right Now
Verification Steps
Run these after any major phone privacy changes:
- Confirm OS toggles applied
- Recheck permissions
- Validate encrypted DNS
- Confirm no cross-tracking tokens remain
- Inspect device logs for unexpected entries
Additional Resources:
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Freedom of the Press Foundation
- PrivacyGuides.org
- Access Now – Digital Security Helpline
Related Support Hubs
- Digital Footprint Hub – Erase identifiers before hardening.
- Digital Lockdown Hub – Harden devices, browsers, and networks against surveillance.
- Network Privacy Hub – Kill DNS leaks, VPN failures, and ISP logging.
- Phone Privacy Hub – Mobile telemetry, OS residue cleanup, and location hardening.
- Crisis Mode Hub – Active threats, fast responses, and RF quieting.
- ZeroSentinel Hub – Your DIY privacy node