Developer Options - turn Sensors On/Off to block the camera and other things?

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Has anyone fooled with the Developer Options and enabled the “Sensors Off” setting?

Once enabled under Developer Options like the one picture, it places an “on/off button” at the very top of your notification screen for easy access.

When on, it seems to totally disable the cameras and some other things. I am not sure what all it does yet, just found it and started fooling with it. :grinning_face:

Might be a solution for those worrying about the camera spying on them, disable it when not needing it, BUT “not sure” what else this disables.

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Hi, yes. I tried using “sensors off” by default (for example, on a lineage OS latest release Android phone). But there was an issue ( me forgetting to turn it back on ) for 2 apps that apparently need it. One was the camera, which just fails to start. I think I need a new camera app that does not rely on sensors. One of the call/msg apps seemed to require the sensors enabled before answering incoming calls but I am not remembering all the details right now.

Another somewhat useful dev only option is the network traffic monitor that can be placed on the status bar.