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By Brian X. Chen<\/strong>

There's a catchy saying going around with a valuable lesson about our personal technology: The devil is in the defaults.

The saying refers to the default settings that tech companies embed deep in the devices<\/a>, apps and websites we use. These settings typically make us share data about our activities and location. We can usually opt out of this data collection, but the companies make the menus and buttons hard to notice, likely in the hope that we don't immediately tweak them.

Apple<\/a>, Google<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, Meta and Microsoft generally want us to leave some default settings on, purportedly to train their algorithms and catch bugs, which then make their products easier for us to use. But unnecessary data sharing isn't always in our best interest.

Consider how several whistleblowers confessed in 2018 that they had listened in on Apple's Siri recordings and Amazon's Alexa activations that inadvertently recorded couples having sex. The recent reversal of Roe v. Wade also underscored the many ways that women can be tracked through their personal tech when seeking options to terminate pregnancies.

So with every tech product we use, it is important to take time to peruse the many menus, buttons and switches to pare down the data we share. Here's a streamlined guide to many of the default settings that I and other tech writers always change.

Apple Phones<\/b>
With iPhone<\/a>s, users can open the settings app and enter the privacy menu to change how they share data about their app use and location. (Apple technically asks people to opt in to some of these settings when they activate a new iPhone, but these steps can easily be missed. These tips would disable the data sharing.)

By Brian X. Chen<\/strong>

There's a catchy saying going around with a valuable lesson about our personal technology: The devil is in the defaults.

The saying refers to the default settings that tech companies embed deep in the devices<\/a>, apps and websites we use. These settings typically make us share data about our activities and location. We can usually opt out of this data collection, but the companies make the menus and buttons hard to notice, likely in the hope that we don't immediately tweak them.

Apple<\/a>, Google<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, Meta and Microsoft generally want us to leave some default settings on, purportedly to train their algorithms and catch bugs, which then make their products easier for us to use. But unnecessary data sharing isn't always in our best interest.

Consider how several whistleblowers confessed in 2018 that they had listened in on Apple's Siri recordings and Amazon's Alexa activations that inadvertently recorded couples having sex. The recent reversal of Roe v. Wade also underscored the many ways that women can be tracked through their personal tech when seeking options to terminate pregnancies.

So with every tech product we use, it is important to take time to peruse the many menus, buttons and switches to pare down the data we share. Here's a streamlined guide to many of the default settings that I and other tech writers always change.

Apple Phones<\/b>
With iPhone<\/a>s, users can open the settings app and enter the privacy menu to change how they share data about their app use and location. (Apple technically asks people to opt in to some of these settings when they activate a new iPhone, but these steps can easily be missed. These tips would disable the data sharing.)