How to turn off sensors on Android ? (Latest 2023)

Hey everyone, this article will be a step by step guide to turn off sensors on android smartphones. Android have this cool feature to turn off all smartphone sensors at once. Once you turn off the sensors your phone apps will no longer be able to access microphone, camera, gyroscope and any other sensors on your phone. You can just use this feature while you are travelling somewhere, so that even if your phone is stolen or lost the one who finds it won't be able to use the phone fully as most of the apps will keep on crashing. You can just disable this feature and your phone will start working normally once again.

Steps To Turn Off Sensors In Android

• Step 1 (Enable Developer Options) : To do this go to Settings > About Phone, then continuously click on Build Number until the message pops that you're a developer.
• Step 2 : Open Settings > Developer Options > Quick Settings Developer Tiles
• Step 3 : Turn on the Sensors off option to enable that quick setting tile.
• Step 4 : Now Swipe down the notifications panel, here you will see the option/icon of Sensors off, click on it to turn off all sensors on your phone.

What happens after you turn off sensors on Android phone ?

Once you turn this on, your phone or apps on the phone will not be able to access the sensors on your device. Hence app requiring sensors like gyroscope, proximity sensor, camera, etc. will not work properly and will keep on crashing.

Here are few things you could encounter : 

• The camera app will crash if you try to take a picture. If any third party app requires camera access on your phone, then that app will also not work.
• Audio recording apps will record nothing, that is only silence will be recorded.
• Fitness apps will not able to access your steps and other fitness activities.
• Apps requiring GPS such as Google Maps, will also not work properly.

Why to Turn Off Sensors on Android ?

Now since you can see this will create a lot of problems for a user if this feature is turned on, you might be curious to think about why would anyone want to enable this option. Well one of the reason I shared at the start of the article in introductory paragraph and along with that this feature is very useful for a situation where your android phone is hacked by someone, so if you turn off the sensors you can be sure that the hacker is not actually able to find your location or peek through camera.