One thing must have happened to all of you. Whatever you are talking or thinking about, that very thing appears as soon as you open the phone. Ads and content related to that start appearing. But have you ever wondered why this happens? Does the phone listen to everything? There is no doubt that your phone keeps an eye on you. But you can control it. You can strengthen your privacy by changing some settings on your phone.

Before changing the settings, it is important to understand how the phone listens to things. How does the phone hear what is going on in your mind or outside? How does the content relate to what appears again and again? One thing that will surprise you is that the microphone access given on the phone is becoming a threat to privacy.

All the applications available on the phone have access to the microphone. Due to this, any app can easily listen to you. To avoid this, there is a need to limit microphone access. You will have to set it only on the selected application. So that only the app you allow will have access to it.

Change the settings like this.

For this, first, go to the phone settings. After this, click on the option of Security and Privacy. Scroll a little and the option of Privacy will be shown. Click on this option. After doing this, click on Permission Manager. Here all those applications will be shown which have access to the phone's microphone.

Follow the further process.

You can click on each app one by one and change its settings. If you click on YouTube, you will get the option to disable microphone access. Out of the three options, click on the option of Ask Every Time. After this, whenever the application accesses your voice, it will ask for permission from you. All the apps on your phone will work the same way as they used to even after changing the settings. Only access to the microphone will be limited.

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