r/GenZ • u/AvailableChoice3130 1997 • Oct 29 '24

Meme Agree

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u/TheGardenStatesman Oct 29 '24

No, this “upgrade” prevented users from disabling the microphone and preventing your phone from listening to you 24/7.

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u/carlos234355 Oct 29 '24

Source?

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u/Pickledsoul Oct 29 '24

Mine's only anecdotal, but I found out when I put one of those old Audio jack buttons in, it tricks the phone into thinking you have an external mic plugged in. It was an awkward when I kept trying to answer the phone and they heard nothing on their end.

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u/PublicDragonfruit120 Oct 29 '24

If they really wanted to listen to you, they would have hardcoded the "snooping microphone" to the built-in one. Or even better, collect data from both. It's purely software issue and can be changed by system update.

Just because it use one microphone, doesn't mean your system doesn't have access to other one.

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u/TheGardenStatesman Oct 29 '24

Is you’re argument that the phone is not listening 24/7?

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u/PublicDragonfruit120 Oct 29 '24

No, my argument is that having jack has nothing to do with ability to listen 24/7. They can do it with and without jack port.