{"id":269228,"date":"2026-06-10T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/7-phone-privacy-settings-to-check-and-turn-off-asap-to-avoid-exposing-your-personal-data\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:50:11","slug":"7-phone-privacy-settings-to-check-and-turn-off-asap-to-avoid-exposing-your-personal-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/7-phone-privacy-settings-to-check-and-turn-off-asap-to-avoid-exposing-your-personal-data\/","title":{"rendered":"7+ phone privacy settings to check and turn off ASAP &#8211; to avoid exposing your personal data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/phone-privacy-settings-to-disable-review-avoid-exposing-data\/\">7+ phone privacy settings to check and turn off ASAP &#8211; to avoid exposing your personal data<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/phone-privacy-settings-to-disable-review-avoid-exposing-data\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/phone-privacy-settings-to-disable-review-avoid-exposing-data\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-10 08:34:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Kerry Wan\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.<\/p>\n<h3>ZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Smartphone permissions can quietly invade your privacy.<\/li>\n<li>Reviewing app permissions can help prevent data exposure.<\/li>\n<li>Check these permissions first, then audit them regularly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your smartphone, whether you favor Android, iOS, or a niche mobile operating system, can leave trails that those who know how to follow can track.<\/p>\n<p>Every app I use requires some level of permission. When you want to order a takeaway, you might need to allow GPS to pinpoint your location; a utility app for speeding up mobile performance may need access to files and folders; or a social media platform may need permission to send push notifications.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>This silent Android feature scans your photos for &#8216;sensitive content&#8217; &#8211; how to uninstall it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While convenient, unless smartphone permissions are properly managed, you might be granting apps far more control than they need &#8212; and this opens the door to your private data being exposed.  <\/p>\n<p>You can decide exactly what your smartphone reveals about you, and when. By running a health check and tweaking the permissions below, you can drastically reduce your digital footprint and avoid unnecessary data exposure.  <\/p>\n<h2> Where do I find my phone permissions? <\/h2>\n<p>Before I explore each permission and what you should enable or disable, you should know where you can find the permission settings.  <\/p>\n<p>The exact location will depend on the make and model of your smartphone, whether you have an Android or iOS handset, and the version of its operating system your device is running. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>How to clear your Android phone cache &#8211; the 30-second routine every user should be doing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, on Android, you typically need to go to Settings  Security and privacy  More privacy settings  Permission manager. On iOS, you will likely find what you need under Settings  Privacy and Security, or Settings  the app you want to examine. <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"android permissions display\" width=\"740\" height=\"411.11111111111114\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>   <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Charlie Osborne\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<h2> Which permissions should I review or dsable?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/phone-privacy-settings-to-disable-review-avoid-exposing-data\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7+ phone privacy settings to check and turn off ASAP &#8211; to avoid exposing your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/d68ea0a8de45ef02eedc9e77f8d50660c52c36cb\/2025\/09\/24\/a63775d2-043c-4836-8614-050579f1deb8\/techwoven-case-and-iphone-air-bumper.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269230,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269228\/revisions\/269230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}