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To: bitt

Re: iPhone spyware
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Live Listen turns your iPhone into a microphone that sends nearby sound to compatible audio devices. It’s designed to help you hear better in noisy environments. For example, the sounds picked up by your phone’s microphone can stream directly into Apple ear buds so you can hear a conversation in a busy restaurant or concert venue more clearly.

The “listening” to your iPhone can only be done by devices that are both logged into your own Apple account and are nearby. Someone else’s iPhone can’t hear or record conversations you’re having on your iPhone unless you share an Apple ID and they’re reasonably close. It can be turned off with a simple toggle so nobody can use this function at all, including you. That would probably be a very good idea if you share an account with a spouse and you’re having an affair. If you decide to call your paramour from the garage and your spouse planted his/her own phone out there because this is something you do often, he/she would be able to hear your entire conversation through his/her Apple ear buds or iPad.


1,473 posted on 11/10/2026 5:48:03 AM PST by LittleLinda
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To: LittleLinda

does android have similar listening features?


1,474 posted on 11/10/2026 5:54:15 AM PST by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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