As title suggests, how do I go about stopping my phone from scanning my surroundings for extra devices?
Note: my phone was already connected to my own headphones.
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
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You can disable the feature, it's called something like near device discovery. Also check this cool app that lets you spoof those devices and spam the suggestions.
Lool. Love it
And my classmates now hate me :(
As long as they don't know who it is, you're safe.
This is how those iPhone crashes worked with the Flipper Zero, I believe. Which allegedly was also able to crash some medical devices and actually hurt people.
Yeah it crashed my pacemaker now my heart only beats to the McDonald’s jingle.
With the app that I linked to, I was able to crash friend's iPhone multiple times.
Way more covert then the flipper zero :D
Im having so much fun at work rn haha
How come when I use this, I can't see any of the devices on windows?
I tried it with 3 Windows laptops and only one worked. Not sure why, maybe turning Bluetooth off in windows prevents this.
EDIT: It stopped working on the one laptop it worked on before. Idk why.