DEVICE SAFETY GUIDES
Your devices, set safe
Every phone and television stick leaves the store with its settings arranged for the companies that made it, not for the household that owns it. Tracking is on. Ads are personal. Back doors stand open for tools nobody in the house will ever use. Each of the three guides below walks one kind of device back to safe, one tap at a time, in plain words, and ends with a short list of what every setting should read when the work is done, so the person holding the device can check their own work.
There is nothing to buy on these pages, nothing to sign up for, and no account to make. Pick the device in your hand and start at step one.
The three guides
Fire TV and Fire Stick
The television pass. The privacy settings taken in the right order, purchases put behind a PIN you choose, the app list cleaned down to what the house can name, the developer back doors closed, and updates checked. About ten minutes with the remote in your hand.
iPhone and iPad
The Apple pass. App tracking and personal ads switched off, location trimmed to the apps that earn it, a real passcode standing guard, updates that install themselves, and Find My switched on before the day it is needed. About ten minutes.
Android
The Android pass. The advertising ID deleted outright, app permissions walked and trimmed, Play Protect set to watch, updates made automatic, the screen locked, Find My Device on, and installs from outside the store shut. About ten minutes.
How to use a guide
Sit with the device in your hand and work the numbered steps in order. Each step names the exact taps, says what the setting does in plain words, and shows what the finished line should read. The order matters in a few places, and the guide says so where it does.
One honest note. The makers rename menu lines from time to time, and one model may say Privacy while another says Privacy and Security. The settings themselves rarely move far. If a name on your screen differs a little from the guide, look for the same words in the same neighborhood before you go hunting across the whole device.
Why the house publishes these
Most of the money lost to scams leaves through an ordinary screen in an ordinary home, through settings nobody chose and permissions nobody remembers granting. The settings in these guides are the first and cheapest layer of protection a household has, and they cost nothing but a few minutes. The house publishes the guides the same way it publishes its information releases, free to anyone, because the work of keeping people safe should not stop at the people who can pay for it. Readers who want the longer story can start with the release on what Americans lost to cyberscams, and the books page carries the house’s published work.
The guides describe the settings screens of Amazon Fire TV, Apple iOS, and Android as they stand in the fall of 2026. A system update can rename a line or move a setting one menu over. The finished states printed at the end of each guide are the standard to check against, whatever the menu that leads there is called. Agentic Armor LLC is not affiliated with Amazon, Apple, or Google, and these guides are a public service, not support for any maker’s products.