Making Your Phone Invisible to Tracking Is Harder Than You Think

Published on December 4, 2023

If you’re at all familiar with action movies or TV shows, you’ve probably encountered a scene involving a character – perhaps a special agent or a fugitive on the run – removing the batteries from their burner phone or even snapping their device in half to avoid tracking. Simple as it may seem in films, real-world smartphones lack a foolproof method to disable tracking. Given this gap, we set out to design a solution to ensure our devices keep our lives private.