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Your smartphone has the potential to be the ultimate spy. It shadows you all day every day, checking your emails, tracking your movements, recording your online activity, and a whole lot more.
As if that weren’t enough, this high-value asset is even equipped with a camera and microphone.
Lack of privacy is a serious problem in the smartphone age. On Android not only does Google track your location permanently, but your apps also profit from your personal data.
Based on the open-source LineageOS, iodéOS pitches itself as an Android operating system without Google. That means there are no Google trackers following your every movement. Despite this independence iodéOS is compatible with the majority of Android apps too, and is updated on a monthly basis to keep it secure.
IodéOS has developed a built-in adblocker that ensures that all internet connections made by the apps on your phone are completely visible. It also lets you know who the recipients of your data are, how much they’re collecting, and where in the world it’s being sent.
But that’s not all. iodéOS also automatically blocks by default the ones that are malicious such as trackers and advertisers. iodé makes their work open source too, which is a guarantee of transparency and ethics.
And that’s just what iodéOS can do for you as a phone user. It can do even more for you as a parent.
Anybody who has ever tangled with a parental control app knows how difficult it is to keep your children safe online. With iodéOS, however, you’ve got full jurisdiction over every aspect of their smartphone use.
The software comes with several levels of protection, allowing you to block everything from pornography to social media platforms like TikTok. You can even password-protect internet access for particular apps.
But compromised privacy isn’t the only problem that iodé is attempting to solve. It’s also going after the environment, by pre-installing its software either on refurbished second-hand smartphones or on new cleverly designed modular models.
You can even install iodéOS on your own handset, as long as it’s one of the many compatible Android phones. All you need to do is download the installer to your Windows or LINUX machine and follow the prompts.
To get started, head to the iodé website right now. You can find how to install it easily here, and learn more about the premium version here.