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How to turn off the camera, microphone, and all the sensors of your mobile with a single touch in Android 10

English - November 9, 2019

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With Android 10, Google has improved the privacy in your operating system with new options, but also have hidden an interesting option that disables hit all the sensors of the device.

This option prevents applications can access all the device sensors, including the cameras and the microphone. The hidden option is called Sensors deactivated and in order to use it we have to follow these steps:

Activate Options for developers

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The first step is to activate the developer Options, to do this we have to go to Settings >phone Information and press several times on build Number until you tell us that the developer options have already been activated.

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Activate icon Sensors deactivated

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The next step is to go to Settings > System > developer Options and Icons for developers in quick Settings enable the option Sensors deactivated.

Add Sensors disabled in quick Settings

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The last step is to show the option ‘Sensor off’ in the menu of quick Settings. To do this we open the panel of quick settings and click on the Edit icon, look in the bottom of the icon Sensors deactivated and drag it in the position that we like.

once you have set up already we just have to click on the Sensors deactivated to disable all the sensors of the device as the cameras, microphones, accelerometer, light sensor, proximity, magnetometer, compass, gyroscope and barometer. is The GPS does not turn off, for this we need to turn off the Location option in the quick settings.

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