T-Mobile's new app requested data from a customer's phone every five seconds

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T-Mobile's new app requested data from a customer's phone every five seconds
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Alan, an ardent smartphone enthusiast and a veteran writer at PhoneArena since 2009, has witnessed and chronicled the transformative years of mobile technology. Owning iconic phones from the original iPhone to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, he has seen smartphones evolve into a global phenomenon.

customer has made quite a shocking discovery. First, we need to point out that when this subscriber opened the T-Life app for the first time, he opted out of a request to share his data. But thanks to the Pi-hole ad blocker, he saw something unsettling.The Pi-hole app discovered that the T-Life app was trying to send information from the subscriber's phone every five seconds to a website with the address"smetrics.

T-Mobile requests personal data from T-Life user and customer every five seconds. | Image credit-Reddit subscriber RandomNameNotFoundsubscriber also points out that the constant requests for information in the background could be a drain on a phone's battery.

request your personal data be sent to the carrier every five seconds can be unsettling, there seems to be a legitimate explanation. As we pointed out, opting out of the request to share data leads to requests fromto clarify this for us and as soon as we get a response, we will add it to this article.

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