Protectstar is the developer of iShredder (Android app), which can “Securely Erase your Android Device”. Does anyone use that before? I have two questions to ask about~
Q1 Usefulness : Is that able to “Securely erase data”?
Q2 Trustworthy : Do they steal any personal information or sneakily access and send my photos or document in devices to the company.
And how about the other apps, like anti-spy app on Android
I think its not open source sooooooo i don’t trust it but you can block the internet access and you are fine
If its not on F-Droid, its likely not open source and is very hard to verify whether shenanigans are happening or not.
What is actually important is to check if your Android filesystems is actually encrypted on the phone. That alone should reasonably be able to protect you from these kinds of problems. And if your phone is not encrypted, I would flat out suggest that you transfer all your personal data then proceed to destroy that phone is a fire and get a new one with encryption.
This is a Lineage OS, an Android fork. It shows if your phone is encrypted or not (image taken from xda-developers article).
Remember, you will likely have these kinds of trust issues if you cannot verify the apps on your phone. Go open source, less likely chance of shenanigans on your phone.
Ideally, the less apps you have, the better you’ll be.
I didn’t see any apps that can erase data but open-source ~
