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I have a question about methods 1 & 2: do you know if having your phone in wifi calling mode with airplane mode on, prevents that form of tracking?
No. The wifi you are connected to, still leak your location data.
Even if you're using a VPN?
Yes.
Can you expand on that? That's a really interesting conclusion and I'd be interested in hearing how that would work.
Personally I use that setup and am quite disappointed to hear that using wifi calling isn't the best idea.
May I should just have wifi calling off the entire time, but I would appreciate an explanation so I can plan on how to tailor my phone usage next.
Thanks
I’m planning to write a post on this!
Wi-Fi calling still gives your carrier your IP address and location so they can route the call, so it's not totally private.
Getting around that usually means running a pretty stripped-down setup (no SIM, full VPN, etc.), which gets pretty inconvenient.