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Audit your app permissions

Apps quietly accumulate access to your location, microphone, camera and contacts. A periodic clean-out is good hygiene.

  1. Open Settings → Privacy (iPhone) or Permissions manager (Android).
  2. Go through location, microphone, camera and contacts one at a time.
  3. Revoke access from any app that has no business needing it — a torch app doesn’t need your contacts.
  4. Set location to ’While Using’ rather than ’Always’ wherever you can.
  5. Repeat the check every few months and after installing anything new.

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