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I would like to know what is running on my phone, what it is doing and who it is communicating with.

I would like to be able to prevent it, like running a firewall or disabling bluetooth for certain processes or more...



No phone can really give you that. Even if the OS were better, the wireless chipsets themselves are black boxes that do their own thing giving you zero insight or control into what how or why. There's plenty of room for improvement, but ultimately they'll always be insecure and untrustworthy by design.


I think apps have to request permission to use Bluetooth on iOS with the exception of audio playback




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