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THESE Apps Are SPYING on You - Shut Them Off NOW!
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- Published on Mar 16, 2026
- Your phone is spying on you right now. We're showing you the apps that track you the most, what data they’re collecting (location, searches, contacts, browsing, and more), and why it matters.
Then I'll walk you through an easy step-by-step guide to shut off the biggest trackers, tighten your privacy settings, and take back control in minutes.
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Bring back the detachable phone battery.
No such thing . Take out the battery and wait a while , put the battery back in and the clock still has time . ???
@Mikeys036 I've got a few old phones with a removable battery. If the clock still keeps time, even after removing a battery, there is likely to be another battery for the timer.
TrUe!!
An experiment was done several years back. Phone was powered completely off, then a specified route around DC was followed. The phone captured EVERY STOP!
Then the BATTERY was taken out BEFORE the phone was completely powered off. Another route was followed, and EVERY STOP was recorded! Battery or no battery, your phone knows every place you go.
“Every move you make,
Every step you take,
Every bond you break,
Every step you take:
I’LL BE WATCHING YOU.”
Get a Faraday pouch, even for your key fob!
@Mikeys036. See above comment.
all the tracking should be legally stopped
📝 does that mean I need to erase what I just wrote down about you making this comment 😂
YOU REALLY THINK THE POLITICIANS ARE GOING TO ALLOW THAT ?
That will never happen unfortunately
@CAPTAINJACK-t6z... They're who is finding the info "useful" to them. All this makes me want to throw my phone away & not have 1 at all !!!
Do you want to pay $20 month for Facebook? Tracking = free.
Replace 'tracking' with 'STALKING'! That's what it is.
Exactly
Honestly, I do not care.
@Janal-e2e you care because you commented if you didn’t care, you would have just kept scrolling
@Janal-e2e Why watch a video about it, then?
@SShelby1313 Indeed. I tend not to watch videos on things I don't care about.
There needs to be established law to stop data from being shared or collected and give smartphones users the choice to totally disable all of this!
America is lawless. They need you to stay complacent and submissive. They won’t protect you, see the Epstein survivors for ref. .
Don't hold your breath. 😢
@rouxchat6033 There are a million tons of LAWS on the books that never see the light of day.
Yeah, don't hold your breath. So much goes to gov data bases that I doubt they'll give up that free influx of info.
Unskippable long ad. Had to close app. No countdown,... They want people to abandon this video. It happened when talking about big A or big G targeted ads and right before the FOIA mention
i'veknown that forever. i talk to someone on the phone about something and guess what. in a few hours, that night the next morning....i am getting ADS for what i was talking about! its ridiculous.
That’s how they make their money. Sales made because someone knows what you are looking for.
That happened to me a lot.
Yep.
You don't have to talk on the phone. You can just talk about it with your phone nearby you'll start getting ads. And God forbid you look for something in a search engine!
I went on a local FB site with a post about my dog. I have since been inundated with adds on RUclips for dog food! Grrrrrrr!
The future is a nightmare
I want to go backwards. I'm going to live in the mountains and eventually just toss the phone. close accounts and live outside the world bubble like the monks till God takes me.
Doesn't have to be..
50 years from now is gonna suck!!!
@rede2usetrue, but it seems humanity is bent on making it so and are regressing to repeat our past destructive behaviors as "new' but in fact old ways. It seems instead of learning from history, we think repeating it is the way to go. Only this time the weaponry that can be deployed are a thousand fold more powerful and much more dangerous in the hands of those who have no conscience.
@1985LISS Tranquility is bliss I'm with you there, but interaction is good for health as well.
if my phone has been tracking me it has long ago died from boredom
🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂 sure
😂
Same!
That’s hilarious! 😆
Knowing they're listening I sometimes talk shit about them into the mic 😂😂😂
All the time!!! 😂😂😂
The insurance rates being raised according to zip code is called red lining…and THAT IS ILLEGAL!
FLOCK CAMERA system that is paid for by your local government/police to track your car (and your face) is also being by insurance companies. They, INS CO’s, get all the road and intersection accident data from city/state police, so they know what roads/intersections are most dangerous by actual percentages. Flock cameras are tracking your car daily, thus know your routes and routine. Combine the traffic accident and Flock data. INS CO’s now have reason to raise rates because “you travel MORE dangerous routes/through dangerous intersections” and are a statistical higher risk. Oh, and that scuffed up/dinged up bumper you’ve had for a few years and then got into a fender bender and need a new bumper. Yeah, that was pre-existing damage and isn’t going to be covered. Want to see the hundreds/thousands of Flock pictures that prove it??
no it isn't
red lining is illegal in real estate, not insurance industry
Your insurance is going up because of immigrants coming and wrecking with so many cars! Some don't care. They have NO INSURANCE! They need to only jack up their insurance not our! But they would cry about the insurance company being prejudice of course! This is why they come here. They cry about everything being prejudice and get away 2ith anything they do against the law! Why do ya think they are so upset about ICE!! Makes sense now,😮
NC has done that for years now!
Red lining has to do with mortgages, not insurance. When I sold car insurance, we rated by zip code.
All apps are spying on you, that was the intention from the start.
If you have a smartphone and carry it with you, you're doomed
That works until they do the implant, sort of like a Covid shot.
the phone itself is the tracking device //// the apps just share data///the phone is self surveillance
Doomed?
@priscilla.colburn444do not take the mark!
If at all possible just leave the phone at home. Tracking problem solved. Your phone does not need to know your location or where you go and what you are doing. That’s just my opinion
Why do governments fail to protect their people from these spying apps? Because they are the ones behind all this madness
...They at least benefit from it!!!
Government's are the ones preaching just say no to drugs all the while pushing the sellers to sell drugs to you. One hands feeds the other.
They do to people exactly what people should do to them. Attack as a defence.
And who is behind the "government"? Isn't it interesting that no matter who is in office lots of things do not change?
Correct 💯
Cell towers = track your locations
Credit cards = track where you are and what you buy.
Landlines = they’ve always been able to listen in on those too!
Now Floc cameras, cellphones security cameras/ring cameras are everywhere.
There’s no hiding but it’s good to be aware.
I was on I77 between Charlotte, nc and Va, and noticed just how many “ traffic” cameras are installed.
I keep all cards: credit, driver license, in credit-cardbRFID wallets in my purse.
some car brands nowadays know due sensors even the last time the driver got laid LOL
@suzymeyer7109 and use cash.
Cars,household products,tv's,cctv,big brother track us. Phones are just tagging devices.
The government ARE the "bad guys" you speak of.
My mom uses a flip phone-no smartphone & refuses to get one. No apps are able to be installed. No web access. Only talk & text. Problem solved.
I’m heading in that direction myself.
actually been thinking if only a landline no cellular. !!!!
They are tracking on all electronics. You don't have to have a smart phone.
My mom, same..
Using other computers and other electronics...they still collect data.
If you leave your phone at home they won't be able to spy on you
Then your bigger problem is your tv
Then what good is it? Now you're on the road with no communication when an emergency arises?
@UrsulaDouglas-l8gDon’t have a TV
You won't be able to call for help either.
Turn it off overtime your not using it? Not sure if people have the will power for that
I hope they get bored as hell tracking me
My Samsung Android sure loves to constantly update and tries to give me apps i refuse.
I also hate those forced constant updates on Android !!!!
Watch out for the piggy back apps
Ah, so this is why I'm stuck with IOshid. :P My old TV that would constantly update, every time I turned it on, it had to update first. It was annoying! the brand begins with V, but... Vizio is the brand I won't buy again.
U cant refuse it automatically installs
Lier lie about something else they automatically install
So many people put their whole lives on their phones and then complain when their personal information is taken.
Because so many people expect privacy. Consumer law. Nobody has time to legally waive their privacy reading waivers / contracts if they consent in order to utilize a lawful product. Incidentally it is not "so many people ". It's the great majority of consumers. Consumers start a legal movement it will cost corporations who utilize you too.
And this is how we get “junk” phone calls as well!
Spam
Hello Jeff. I see you have ForeFlight. What do you fly?
Old lady in uk here. Thank you. Can remember reading 1984 at school and thinking 'as if, lol'. This is terrifying.
Pls just show the list of apps?
ridiculous eh? wasting everyones time.
@HumanAP1 no they arent
Fun story: My wife and I got married in 2008...sane house every sense. Our water heater broke down week before last. I will preface that with I've never seen anything regarding hot water heaters in all this time. So I'm scrolling through Google Friday night and I see an article about how often you should drain your hot water heater. I've NEVER done any searches on HWHs. So yes, your phone is listening/spying.....even when you think it isn't
Did your wife search anything? The same IP address will trigger them to connect the two of you, and could give you ads for it. But yeah it’s crazy! Lots of stories of this
I see you chump
The wife and i always bring up when these things happen. We always say things super loudly when we want something now or change lol
@proximitybeejay3673😂😂😂
A warrant used to be required for a landline telephone to be tapped. Not anymore. What the hell?
Thsnks to the Patriot Act when america blew up their own twin towers on sep11th
Yes and no. It depended on if you said any of the trigger words that made Echelon begin recording the rest of your phone call. If Echelon tagged your phone number three times then you were placed in a file and considered a possible terrorist threat to the U. S. Yes this was going on since the 1980's. Cheers
I have to watch this video 10 mins at a time, it’s so anxiety provoking
😂😂😂😂😅
So I pay $1000 for a device that spies on me.... and the phone makers make even more selling the data.... this is bullshit
Exactly!
In light of THE TRUTH of what The TRUE and LIVING LORD GOD ALMIGHTY said is coming, We ain't seen nothing yet! Be READY!
You skipped right over the mic and camera part for androids...
Sounds like we are all having our freedom taken away from us.
No longer scared of the phone spying. I have seen it all and that at its dirtiest and lived to tell the tale.
Put your phone in a Faraday bag/box when turned off
It's laughable that you think changing the setting & turning them off it's going to stop it
They can see everything they can access everything
That data storage is used to make Artificial Intelligence.....
I am proud of myself! You did an amazing job with this presentation. But I must have to tell you that every single one of these, including the last ones significant locations and routes was shut off. I must’ve found out about that a while ago and the summary was zero records. All of the different things that you suggested to shut off or already shut off I am so tickled. So this old 81-year-old Alaska lady is not being regularly tracked not that there is much excitement going on in our lives lol
Love to hear it! You're ahead of the game
Same
@RossenReports
Sorry, buddy! How 'bout ALL the information ⁉️
🤓👋Hey Alaska Lady, wtg on being safely techie!!!
Even if you shut it off it’s still spying
CORRECT
I 100% agree with you!!!!
@iTanUShow does that work
Can't spy if you bury it under clothing in a drawer.
@gailschultz9730 hahahaha
it can
"There's always free cheese in the mousetrap baby!"
- Tom Waits
If we all banned together that these apps were spying on us we could say they are stalking us instead!!! Massive lawsuits!!!
Am in, even nothing is interesting about my data 😅
This is crazy, even crazier. How about putting devices inside your body without your permission. When you try to stop it, they make you look/sound crazy.
sometimes they cut off functionality if they don't have location
I keep my phone in a faraday pouch.
What is that
@RobertaShagamParenting the best way to keep your electronic items safe from any EMP or RFID scanning process
@idapinkham1810thank you. Have been looking them up. So many options. Thanks for this
Thanks for the tip. Great idea.
When I turn off mic and camera from RUclips the app shuts off
So why do people go missing without a trace? But you know, I leave my phone in my car now when I go visit my sister. We know the phones are listening to us.
😮😮😮😮
THE ROARING 20'S WAS A HUNDRED YEARS AGO AND WE ARE IN THE SAME SITUATION 100 YEARS LATER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also when we use a web page... all the cookies are traking and selling our information make sure you deny and reject all the cookies before you enter to a website. They are so annoying
I always cover my screen when it's off
You forgot me as an android user😳😏
This has been happening for years....just increased over the years
26:20…I had to do this THREE TIMES before it actually cleared my history!!!! That’s crazy and I shared this vid with my entire circle!!! Some things are to remain PRIVATE!!
People say "I have nothing to hide."
Well, yes. I have nothing to hide, but everything to protect.
Bub, you just left us Android people out in left field. There are more of us than you may think. I would like to know more about the camera and microphone on my android please. This topic was not thoroughly covered as it should have been. Maybe at another time.
I agree
For real..never had an iphone and never will. I had macbooks when I was in school (because that's all my school district got, and then moved onto ipads)...no thanks!
As an Apple user even I agree and in some ways it's more important for Android users.
@Whattheheck829 ??? "even USA" What are you trying to say?
@PilgrimFLI think it was a mis-type. Idt ppl realize they can edit their comments after posting. I think they meant to ask why even have an android... well honey, its because Android is more of an open interface as it doesn't lock you into a certain program or brand. Ive had multiple ppl tell me switching to android from apple is either really complicated or impossible depending on what you're transferring. They dont like/want you to leave so they make it impossible or nearly so to be able to CHOOSE between manufacturers.
Android and Pixel user here. Would you do a video for us too please???
You forgot to tell everyone to "TURN OFF AUTOMATIC UPDATE." APPLE and droid resets settings during software updates without your knowledge.
You forgot to expalin how to disable camera and microphone with an Android .
You can talk about something stupid like a nimble, and 2 secs later an ad for nimbles will appear...That says it all 😂
16:19 "Step by Step, the most you can do to get as private as you can." Starting here. Thank you for good info.
You got it thanks for watching
All of my android settings were already off. I think I may have seen something like this before. Cool. Had it covered. 😉
Put on airplane mode or wrap air tight in aluminum foils when you are not using it.
What air plane do ?
Yup, your phone.. and for a lot of people, devices in your house. When I can say "hey google" at any time and my phone recognizes that, or "Alexa" or whatever.... it's because it's listening 24/7.
Exactly and so important to know that, which stinks
@RossenReports It just 'stinks'? Really? It's illegal. Get it through your thick skull, dude.
My REFRIGERATOR will suddenly say, "I'm sorry, I didn't catch what you said..." 😳😳😳
@Indydi just a gentle reminder. I guess..
I thought it crazy at the time, was standing talking to an elderly woman in a pet store
We got to talking and when I shared something with her, my phone suddenly blurted out- "oh my, that must have been a terrible situation for you! ETC "-(out loud in the store and many people heard!)... What bothers me is that I know my phone wasn't off but it was shut down🤬????
Amazing video, thank you so much for all you do
Thank YOU for watching
Spying and seeing how much money we have in our bank
My bank closed and I have not opened an account since I'm not working at the time. They wouldnt be interested anyway since I always pay about every thing with cash or a gift card type card. Plus the fact pretty much poor anyway lol
Sending endless appreciation to you for the services you provide ‼️
Appreciate YOU too
Thank you for your help with this. PLEASE HELP ME FIGURE OUT HOW TO STOP ALL THE UNWANTED APPS BEING AUTOMATICALLY DOWNLOADED TO MY PHONE. It's so annoying!!!
I read somewhere if you have apps on your device that you did not download your phone may be hacked but I don't know what you can do about that if you find out please let me know 🙏
I turned off my phone at the symphony recently, and afterwards I pulled it out and it was on. What!
Can’t stand it being so nosy what they’re doing
I was creeped out when texting with my daughter about an imminent birth in the family. No relationships were mentioned. I suddenly got a conversation bubble that said my great granddaughter did not appear in my contacts! AI I presume.
If I like the videos on Utube,how can I protect myself from spying.
ITS CRUCIAL PEOPLE ALSO DISABLE THESE SETTINGS ON THEIR COMPUTERS / LAPTOPS / TABLETS....OR ANY DEVICE YOU HAVE LINKED YOUR PHONE TO
I’m tired of having a conversation and then the first ad I see on Facebook minutes later is for a product related to my conversation.
I’ve had a bad cough for almost a month after getting sick taking care of my partner and his kids and my phone sent me a notification asking me if I want to see a med provider for persistent cough. I have not done any searches for such a thing. So how would it know unless it can hear me cough ?
Try mucinex for the cough. If you take it drink a lot of water throughout the day and night.
Same here.
I had a neighbor coughing weeks ago at night ,the next morning I began getting Vicks formula 44 ,ads. .
Apartment life ..... plus the neighbors upstairs dose lose videos and spying in others homes ( apartment )nothing stoping them at all .No ads of stop ❗🧐 Evedently for them.....🤢
They blocking my text......
Neighbors cough next door ,I get an ad for a cough med , apartment living.
While the folks up stairs make lude videos and spy in all our apartments ...... nothing saying stop at all to them😮
Wow I must be so boring my phones don't care what is happening with me 😂
Good info! Thanks from Taxington State in the NW.
Thanks Chris!
I have been going through all the Terms & Conditions & it is SCARY what all these companies collect. Ever since then I have been trying to limit their use by going through my settings throughly, but I’m still scared lmfao. It’s so weird!
Guess Who did This⁉️
Bill Gates was given the authority to create the Cloud and the all Seeing Eye System by Congress back in the late 80s - in Silicon Valley.
He was using intelligent teenagers from China who became billionaires in their 20s - before 1999.
Apple, Verizon and all the technology firms were involved as partners, with other billionaires (from the Underground World) who were also financing the creation of the robot system.
And what’s going on today under Donald Trump & The VP who was selected by a billionaire - to succeed Trump, after Trump completes his mission, to destroys the White House system as his job is ending.
They are watching everybody with cameras on the stop lights while WE are traveling in our vehicles - as the all seeing eyes.
Which proves that they are the real aliens controlling the Humans in a Race against them.
And yes, the mark of the beast was designed to control Our brains, to keep us all divided under “Capitalism”.
Your bank has access to your camera because you have the option to take a picture of a check, your printer probably has the option to print straight from a photo.
Correct ✅
My phone starts actiivity as soon as I get up in the morning. 😡😱🥴
Far more of your phone is spying on you and stealing your information than it is helping you. And how bizarre that the same providers tell you they can't track or locate your phone if you lose it?
This makes sense why they are encouraging us to create apps now.
I have a green dot on my iPhone camera
It’s called stalking!!
Yes and how do we stop it
Neighbors doing it to me and others in six apartments here as they make lude videos 😮🤢😎
@BeckyName
They made it very hard to get a detective in this city.....
Go to the prison of the sheriff office there.....then leave and call for an appointment ((on any phone the crook lesson on too ))...... While they flood your apartment and dash sink water from there balcony to your yard ,and sat to others you sink cause you on to them ..
@BeckyName
Detective
We need more advice for Android phones, please. For camera etc.
Thank you for this information. I knew my phone was spying on me, but I didn’t know how to stop it. Just went through my settings, and followed your directions. 👍🏾
Glad you did it!
Just Yesterday I was looking at something on google and the next thing i was being shown advertising on a game to do with that😮
For Android users, just go to your settings, select the app.Go to permissions and delete the ones you do not want to allow.
non-filler content starts at 6:15
The TV in my bedroom is unplugged because I can't stop unknown voices from coming through the speaker,now how are these people hacking my non smart TV ,I need some serious technical help to catch these violaters ,no hope
Wow and I thought I was the only one .. The internet would be great if there were no evil people no thieves and people without a conscience constantly hacking people and stealing their whole lives planting false information doing dirty deeds and putting them onto innocent people like us who are not doing anything wrong just trying to live our lives I don't mess with anybody but people are constantly or one person I'm not sure but they want leave me alone and I don't know what to do about it ... Eventually there will be laws because people want stop their bad behavior unless the threat of prison time but then proving who is doing this mess is also a CHALLENGE
There is NOT a Google option under settings on my phone.
If I run off the road down in a Gully I want to be tracked but I don't think they should be listening
Friendly note. I’m old and not techie. Just recently bought Roku. Remote comes set for voice command. Turn it off
Great point, thanks for sharing!
Also put tape over the camera and or the receiver for the remote on a Roku. Do not let your TV see you.
Some tracking features have been helpful for example in locating missing people, but on the other hand we just need to be smart enough to know how to turn them off.
One time, I got a report on my Samsung telling me where I had gone this week. Do not remember exactly what I did but I went in my settings and shut it off.
I do not have anything to hide however, it freaked me out.
All the people out there who are disabled and getting some benefits, but show they go to same location, for same hours each day... watch out, they know you are working and how you are getting paid... under some furniture!
But, as a rule I do not like cheaters.
Another great video. Thanks.
Ii thank you for this you opened my eyes😀
I’m glad
Wherever you go they know where you're going and how long you been there. That's why they made it so you can't take the batteries out.
Mine tell me that Significant Locations could not be cleared!!
reset. and turn it location off under every single drop down list. from every part, every item check it all. location hides as so much and is not nesc except as emergency response ((unable remove 1- spot))dont leave i any cell on, dont use email connections or social media on cell. stop feeding system. use walky takies, the kids not matching plastic toys, on same channel, walk malls, church sales, farmers markets --keep in touch in some places like parks, beaches etc. go arnd china
I’m in lockdown mode and it’s taken care of most of this
Watching from SA
App functionality seems to be their ability to sell you to others for a fee or the government agencies for leniency in licensing agreement stipulations.
It’s Obama，he spied on the civilians！ Swoden was the whistleblower！
Very helpful video. Thank you.
Thank you for doing this videos. Most of the them I’ve already shutdown but the last one didn’t know about.
Glad I could help
Thank you for sharing
I am blessed all the tracking under settings in my phone was already off.
Why don't you help Android users?????
Because he's a dumb dumb for using an iPhone in the first place
He said at beginning of video for Android and IPhone.
@jeannine3367that's a negative. Those options don't appear
@jeannine3367 The instructions don't match Android.
@lauriehelker7436That’s not good. Hopefully, you get the answers you’re looking for.
Hi when I answers my phone a green microphone light go strait to the right side up on the phone, listening my conversation.