Or learn about app pinning (android) and guided access (iOS)
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2024
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App pinning has an explicit warning that "personal data may be accessible" and "pinned apps may open other apps". I mean, it's better than nothing, but I'd prefer not to rely on it anyways.
It's a dull knife. The only thing more dangerous than a sharp knife, is a dull one.
It’s a cop, not a child. All it takes is for them to connect your phone to an external device.
... and bypass such sandboxing?
get a cheap decoy phone and exclusively use it for watching mukbang videos and messaging "your ex" (you) to take you back
Article doesn't mention how you're an asshole to all your friends and family if you handed your phone over.
Ethically, you'd need to get consent from every person you took a photo of and every person you've ever emailed or messaged. Once you get their permission to pass their data over to the police, only then can you hand your phone to them without being an asshole.
I've long held that my phone is a single point of failure and that I should be able to function without it. So I don't do banking on my phone, I still carry a wallet even if I do have Apple Pay and I will certainly carry physical identification until I'm legally unable to.
I unfortunately have the same feeling. Around Iphone 4 or so (when they were a lot smaller and sleeker) I got a slim phone case that could hold a card and my ID. It felt so nice going on a trip with only that in my pocket (not having to worry about if I feel my wallet in my back pocket, etc) but I couldn't get over the fact that if I lost the phone I would be utterly screwed and a long way from home. Tend to always have a back-up now adays since I don't want to have to put up with that.
Use distress pin. Wipes the phone. Restart from backup.
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As well as this, GrapheneOS also supports automatic rebooting for if your phone is taken by force. As once you've logged in from a cold boot, your data is in a vulnerable state where cops can access it without needing your passcode. With GOS, you can specify an amount of time for the phone to wait since the most recent login, and once that time has passed, it will automatically reboot the phone, placing your data back into the cold and secure state, so that the cops must then acquire your passcode from you, at which point you'd be able to give them the duress pin and ensure that the data is removed safely.
You shouldn't put anything really important in a google/apple phones
I also add: don't talk to the cops. They are there to look for anything to incriminate you