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Someone opened my phone (feddit.de)

submitted 11 months ago by Dislodge3233@feddit.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm running Graphene on a Pixel 6. I lost it and someone opened it somehow and called two of my contacts to give it back.

I'm a bit confused how this even happened. When I got the phone back, they were going through my contacts. I checked app usage stats and they went through a banking app (not missing money), maps, signal, etc.

Is there a way to figure out how they even unlocked my phone?

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You could put the crap apps in the main profile, and then the important apps in the work profile. Then the important apps would have two factor

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am not really leaving my device locked haha, or if, then I would also always have the work profile locked. Also I dont trust Androids init system, apps just randomly run in the background and there still is no way to completely prevent that. So I keep them in the work profile

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On Grapheneos I've been using the disable app option aggressively, to have installed apps that only run when I need them. I do have to enable them from the app settings, which is a little annoying but the hotel booking app doesn't need to be running all the time.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They disappear from launchers which is very bad UX

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 11 months ago

I see why they did it. If you disable Google News, you don't want to see it in your launcher. So that makes sense for the original ASOP developers

I think now, because disabling is a first-class feature for any app, you should be able to indicate you want to still see it in the launcher even though it's disabled.