Turn off Bluetooth/GPS if is not being used
When I use my GPS app or I want to use my Bluetooth headphones I need to turn on those services, but only in those scenarios, once I’m done using them I don’t want them to be always on, is there a way to automatically turn them off is they are not being used? I tried Tasker but the “Turn off Bluetooth if not being used” profile wasn’t working at all.
Macrodroid, Automate, Tasker.
But why turn them off?
Really has virtually no battery life impact (this from 15 years of testing many phones and configurations). Perhaps 1% in 24 hours, I’d have to look at my stats.
May have a slight privacy impact, but given the overall data collection out there, probably unmeasurable. That said, I do turn mine off a lot for the same reason, I just don’t believe it really makes a difference
Tracking can and is done with both by 3rd parties.
Not the best link, but Schiphol airport as a public example.
A sign on the revolving entrance to a European airport, one sign among many, says "the airport employs wi-fi and bluetooth tracking; your privacy...
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