Android WiFi Privacy Settings

https://www.the-sun.com/tech/6096844/android-users-warning-check-wifi-settings/

BILLIONS of Android users have been warned to check their WiFi settings NOW.

Simply turning off your WiFi doesn’t actually mean it is completely off and it could be running in the background.

Users need to go to Location in their phone settings and pick Location Services. They must then scroll down the page to find WiFi scanning.

Anyone wanting another level of privacy may want to turn that off.

Techie TikTok star @tatechtips issued the advice in his latest video.

In the short clip, he said: “Turning off your WiFi, doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve turned off your WiFi.

“So if you head over to your phone’s settings and go to ‘Location’ and then select ‘Location Services’ and here you can see ‘WiFi scanning’.

“It says ‘Let apps use WiFi for location detection even when WiFi is turned off.

“So that means that when you’ve turned your WiFi off but you’ve got your scanning on your phone is still constantly sending probe requests for WiFi.

“So if you want an extra level of privacy turn your WiFi scanning off as well.”