What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You

Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You by craftkiller on Monday February 16, 2026 @12:02PM (#47037416)

I have the opposite experience: GrapheneOS has an option to automatically turn your bluetooth off after a configurable period of not being used. So when I need to use bluetooth, I turn it on like normal. Then, without thinking about it, it automatically turns off. The end result is my bluetooth is only ever on for a couple hours each month when I'm making phone calls.

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Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You by littlecorner on Monday February 16, 2026 @01:58PM (#47038790)

Did not realize I could do that! Thank you!

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Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You by rationalist on Monday February 16, 2026 @03:00PM (#47039550)

I only see an option to turn back on tomorrow. How do you find this option?

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Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You by craftkiller on Monday February 16, 2026 @06:09PM (#47041596)

It's under Settings > Security and Privacy > Exploit Protection > Turn off bluetooth automatically

Definitely not the most obvious location. I would have expected to find this under the bluetooth settings.

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Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You by rationalist on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:50PM (#47043499)

Awesome, thank you.

I don't recall that being there when I first installed GrapheneOS. I need to go through the settings more often I guess.

It might be a cool feature if settings were highlighted or had a red dot or something until it was viewed (like an unread notification).

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Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You by 9991 on Monday February 16, 2026 @09:36PM (#47043058)

Your problem is that you chose an OS that respects you and treats you with dignity.

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