Apple: What is your Device doing? Switch on App Privacy Report, wait a day, then look for the entries that make no sense — the calculator with location access, the domain your phone talks to all night.
Safety Check and Access Audit (Apple) Access accumulates quietly: a shared album, a partner's old device, an app you approved once and forgot. Apple built a wizard that lists all of it in one place, and one button that revokes the lot.
Prevent Apps from Accessing Your Camera & Microphone on Android No app needs your microphone as badly as it claimed at install time. The record of what you granted and what you refused is already sitting on the phone — the work is reading it honestly.
Disable Siri on iPhone Two minutes in Settings. Switching Siri off is the easy part; the recordings Apple is already holding need a separate request before they go anywhere.