I mailed her a summary for future reference. It's quite detailed but it was not in English and the phone was not in English too. So forgive me but I asked Claude to translate it and guess the right menu and option names for an English Android. It should be enough to give you the idea of what I did. It was a Samsung phone, not a S series.

Here it is:

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Tapping <first name last name> at the top of Settings opens the Samsung account notice, and the Terms of Service show as not accepted. I'm leaving them unaccepted and not continuing.

1. Security and privacy

Controls and alerts: left Microphone access on, because permissions will be set individually per app.

More privacy settings:

Send diagnostic data

Set to Off

Samsung

Improve personalized ads based on data from this phone: you have to go to the Samsung account settings.

Receive news and special offers on this phone: same

Customization Service for your phone: same

Going to Accounts and backup > Samsung Cloud > Data backed up: there is no data being backed up to Samsung.

Going to Samsung Cloud shows that Bluetooth, Calendar, Contacts and Wi-Fi are synced.

Google

Google personalization service: set to Off

Permission manager:

Switched to Ask every time:

  - Chrome
  - Maps
  - Meet
  - Facebook
  - Google
  - Messages
  - Speech Recognition & Synthesis from Google
  - Samsung Keyboard
  - TikTok

Still set to "Allowed only while in use": Camera and WhatsApp

Activity controls

Web & App Activity: turned off, but I did not delete the history

Timeline (Location History): was already off since January 1, 2025

YouTube History: left on

Personalized ads:

  - My Ad Center is turned off
  - Partner ads settings, Visit My Ad Center, Ads you can control, Get started,
    Cancel

Everything is disabled, as expected after turning off the Google personalization service

2. Ads

Ads privacy

Ad topics: 0

App-suggested ads: 0

Ad measurement: - Allow ad measurement: set to Off - Reset measurement data: reset

Reset advertising ID: confirmed, reset

Delete advertising ID: deleted

Usage & diagnostics: disabled

3. Remote management

After I tapped it, it said "Installing applications" After a few minutes, at the second login, I got in and it showed me a Smart Tutor screen. I went to Apps, found it and uninstalled it. It would have allowed the phone to be managed remotely by customer support, I don't know which one.

Facebook

Settings & privacy

Settings, Apps and websites, turned off "Apps, websites and games"

Business integrations

Activity log, Apps and websites off Facebook, Posts from apps and websites: it was empty. Your apps: it was empty.

Your TV can see through walls (2025)