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.
If you want your phone to stop bleeding identifiers, start here. This page is the index. Move through the sections. Each guide locks down a different layer of mobile exposure. 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
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1. Phone Privacy Fundamentals: What Phones Actually Leak
A clear framework for understanding how phones expose you: radio metadata, OS telemetry bursts, app sync, cross identifier correlation, and carrier level logs.
2. The Mobile Privacy Starter Checklist
Your fast wins: kill unnecessary radios, purge permissions, isolate apps, clean cloud logs, and break auto-sync cycles.
3. Make Your Phone Invisible
Your guide for stripping identifiers, cleaning app residue, tightening permissions, and eliminating location bleed.
Related Master Guides
These master guides give you the system level defenses behind the tactical steps. Each of these expands the footprint work into system level defenses.
- The Complete Guide to Locking Down Your Digital Life
- Threat Modeling and OPSEC: A Practical Guide for Real Humans
- Crisis Mode Protocols
- The Resistence Mindset: How to Reclaim Control
- Operational Privacy: From Setup to System
Device Telemetry Kill Switches
Disable the Coordinates: How to Kill Location Logging on GrapheneOS
Precise toggles, hidden logs, and the full workflow for wiping location data.
iOS Telemetry Reduction
How to strip analytics, ad tracking, background refresh, silent sync, and sensory metadata.
Android Permission Purge
Kill background sensors, revoke dangerous permissions, and stop apps from quietly restoring them.
Google Logged that Too
Breaks down cloud shadow copies, backup logs, device signals, and browser sync leaks.
App Containment and Behavior Isolation
How to Use App Sandboxes Without Breaking Your Workflow
A practical walkthrough of containers, profiles, workspaces, and isolating risky apps.
Compartmentalized App Setup: Personal / Work / High-Risk
Build separate environments that cannot cross contaminate identifiers.
How to Kill Cross App Tracking on Android and iOS
Breaks ad IDs, analytics frameworks, SDK tracking, and embedded third-party telemetry.
App Residue Cleanup: Kill Background Sync & Telemetry
How to remove stored identifiers, local caches, push tokens, device fingerprints, and app telemetry files.
Cloud, Sync, and Account Metadata
Clear Your Google Footprint
Deep deletion of Google’s retained logs, device history, location shadows, and activity tracking.
How to Stop iCloud From Rebuilding Device Metadata
Turn off silent backups, device syncing, iCloud analytics, and residual app metadata.
Apple / Google Account Compartmentalization
How to maintain multiple low signal accounts without linking them through device identifiers.
Location Privacy and Movement Safety
Erase Your Phone Footprint in 15 Minutes
A fast, tactical script to stop the bleed immediately.
Your Phone Is a Snitch and How to Shut It Up
Breaks down passive antennas, tower pairing events, WiFi probes, BLE beacons, and how to stop them.
Location Logs Build a Case Against You
A breakdown of how your phone logs your movements through tower pings, Wi-Fi scans, Bluetooth probes, and sensor data even when you think tracking is off.
Movement Metadata: What Your Phone Broadcasts Without You Knowing
Explains accelerometer drift logs, motion data, sensor fusion, and proximity tracking.
Using Noise to Hide in Plain Sight
How to introduce controlled randomness to your behavioral patterns.
The Day You Ditch Your Phone Shouldn’t Be the First Time
A crisis technique for safe phone separation, maintaining function without metadata linkage.
Radio and Carrier Level Tracking
How to Stop Carrier Level Profiling
Kill VoLTE identifiers, suppress IMS traffic, limit SIM logging, and block tower fingerprint correlation.
Force Secure DNS on Mobile
Route mobile DNS through encrypted channels without breaking connectivity.
Mobile Hotspot Privacy: What You’re Exposing
Understand MAC bleed, DNS spillover, and client device correlation.
How SIMs Tie You to Your Identity (and How to Avoid It)
Explains SIM metadata, IMEI correlation, tower pairing history, and how to minimize it.
Hardware, Sensors, and Local Data
How to Disable Sensors Without Rooting Your Phone
Gyroscope, magnetometer, motion sensor control, and OS-level overrides.
Local Storage Lockdown
Encrypt local files, remove cached media, and disable unsafe auto save directories.
Private Photo & Media Workflow
Stop exif leaks, remove location tags, and avoid cloud sync traps.
How to Turn a Dead Phone Into a Private Vault
Repurpose a phone into an offline vault with no telemetry.
Compartmentalization
How to Use a Burner Phone
Rules for isolation, safe setups, SIM discipline, and avoiding network contamination.
Build a Strong Digital Persona
Persona construction without linking to your real identity through device usage.
Nyms, Personas, and Digital Identity
Operational structures for identity separation.
How to Keep Identities From Cross Contaminating
Network, device, and app level isolation strategies.
What to Do First When You Lose Your Phone
A fast response protocol to cut exposure, revoke tokens, wipe data, and sever identity trails.
Quick Checks
Phone Privacy Audit: 15-Minute Checklist
Rapid checks to confirm telemetry is dead, permissions revoked, and logs erased.
What’s Exposing You Right Now
Real time quick scan of sensors, radios, app behavior, sync activity, and permissions.
Verification Steps
Run these after any major phone privacy changes:
• Confirm device location history is empty
• Recheck permissions after OS updates
• Validate encrypted DNS is enforced
• Verify SIM metadata isn’t leaking
• Confirm no cross-app tracking tokens remain
• Re-audit background processes
• Check sensor logs for unexpected entries
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.
- Faraday Gear Hub – RF quieting and physical metadata control.