Soldato
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I'm probably being daft, but I have no iPhone to test with. Does the 'Location Services' slider in Privacy settings really disable all location tracking?
My sister is in a tricky situation. She left her partner and has been convinced for a while that he has something (not just family sharing type stuff) on her phone that is giving him access to her location and maybe more.
She's been advised by the folk dealing with her escape to a refuge not to turn on her old phone to preserve potential evidence on it, and protect her location being accidentally divulged. But two factor authentication requirements keep leading her back to needing to use it. She doesn't have hard copy backup keys for Gmail (I should have thought of all this when she started muttering about leaving him!) and the backup email address requires similar 2FA leading back to the iPhone. So it's a bit of a Catch22 at present.
I suggested she travel as far as she can from her current location (even I don't know where she is), turn on the phone for long enough to get backup keys written down, then use that and her login info to start again with a new Android device. But I'm wondering if it would be easier to go somewhere like a stair well with no service (tricky to prove until it's turned on), or at least bad service slowing network connection, and use the Location Services button... then relax. Of course location info might be required for logging onto some services, but that's a different matter.
Anyway, feel daft asking stuff like this when I've watched all the Jason Bourne movies and the net's full of privacy discussion, but I feel the need to crowd-source this. I don't want to make her situation more stressful than it already it, and she has no internet access for research until the local library opens again tomorrow.
My sister is in a tricky situation. She left her partner and has been convinced for a while that he has something (not just family sharing type stuff) on her phone that is giving him access to her location and maybe more.
She's been advised by the folk dealing with her escape to a refuge not to turn on her old phone to preserve potential evidence on it, and protect her location being accidentally divulged. But two factor authentication requirements keep leading her back to needing to use it. She doesn't have hard copy backup keys for Gmail (I should have thought of all this when she started muttering about leaving him!) and the backup email address requires similar 2FA leading back to the iPhone. So it's a bit of a Catch22 at present.
I suggested she travel as far as she can from her current location (even I don't know where she is), turn on the phone for long enough to get backup keys written down, then use that and her login info to start again with a new Android device. But I'm wondering if it would be easier to go somewhere like a stair well with no service (tricky to prove until it's turned on), or at least bad service slowing network connection, and use the Location Services button... then relax. Of course location info might be required for logging onto some services, but that's a different matter.
Anyway, feel daft asking stuff like this when I've watched all the Jason Bourne movies and the net's full of privacy discussion, but I feel the need to crowd-source this. I don't want to make her situation more stressful than it already it, and she has no internet access for research until the local library opens again tomorrow.
