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did not know that. but from the image, that seems like something that is inside of the phone? not really something you casually flip on the street.
my idea is that anytime you would flip the switch and lock the screen to put the phone in the pocket, its spying capabilities would be physically disabled.
I actually have one I'm not using at the moment. The switches at within the back cover but that's easily able to be reached within 5 seconds or so with no tools. It's not exactly something you would be flipping on and off regularly though unless you had a very specific use case.
Anything that isn't a hardware switch potentially leads itself to being bypassed, so the switches are your best bet for being sure it's disabled.
Edit: there's also this (I linked the case which shows the switches) phone which has switches on the outside for this purpose. I don't know anyone who has used this one however.
Yea you are right, the privacy switches are under the battery cover, so it requires taking the cover off flipping the switch and putting it back on again.
The cover is made similar to how the Acatels are if you have ever used them, so its a pry instead of a slide which is annoying, but at least its there, in my opinion its a design defect, I think the switch would have worked better if the cover was a slide like how the old Samsungs were prior to going to the non-removable battery layout