# StellarSand/privacy-settings: one Markdown file per app, with no iPhone, Steam or TikTok page > A MIT-licensed set of Markdown guides, each covering the privacy settings of one product or one OS version. It is a reference you read, not software you run, and its coverage has visible gaps. **StellarSand/privacy-settings** — Guide to privacy settings for most major software and services. - Repository: https://github.com/StellarSand/privacy-settings - Stars: 2,169 · Forks: 76 - Language: Unknown - License: MIT - Published: 2026-10-14 · Updated: 2026-10-30 · Language: en - Canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/stellarsand-privacy-settings ## Each product gets its own file under Privacy Settings/ The repository has no code. Its top-level entries are CHANGELOG.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, LICENSE, README.md, icons/, images/, a folder called Privacy Settings/ and a folder called Extensions Settings/. Everything useful sits in those two folders as one Markdown file per product. The README is the index. Its Privacy Settings section links to files such as Android-15.md, Brave-Search.md, Visual-Studio-Code.md and Windows-11.md, all under Privacy Settings/. An HTML comment above the list reads Keep the list alphabetically ordered, so contributors insert new entries in sorted position. That rule matters for you as a reader too: if you cannot find an app, scan by first letter instead of by category, because the list has no grouping. The repository metadata gives no primary language and no homepage. The project is MIT licensed, and it is not archived. ## Android is covered version by version, from Android 11 to Android 17 Android gets the most granular treatment. Separate files exist for Android 11, Android 12/12.1, Android 13, Android 14, Android 15, Android 16 and Android 17, linked as Android-11.md through Android-17.md. Android 12 and 12.1 share one file named Android-12.md. Splitting by version fits how vendors move settings between releases. A single Android page would have to say where a menu sits in each version. Here you pick the file for your release and read only that one. The cost is duplication: a setting that did not change between Android 14 and Android 15 appears in both files, and a correction has to be made twice. There is no page for Android 10 or earlier, and no per-manufacturer page. Someone asking where the privacy setting sits on a Samsung phone gets the stock Android file for their version, nothing specific to that vendor's skin. The list also includes Android Studio as its own entry, which is the developer tool rather than the OS. ## Apple coverage stops at the Apple Account and MacOS Sequoia Searches for iPhone privacy settings are common for projects like this, and this repository answers only part of that. The Apple entries are Apple Account (Apple-Account.md) and MacOS Sequoia (MacOS-Sequoia.md). No file is named for iOS or iPadOS, and no other macOS release has a page. If you want the handset menus of an iPhone, the Apple Account guide is the nearest match, and it covers the account, not the device settings. A reader on macOS Sonoma or Tahoe has to apply the Sequoia guide by analogy and check each menu name against the screen in front of them. The asymmetry with Android is plain in the file list. Seven Android versions are covered, yet iOS has no entry at all. If your threat model starts with an iPhone, this repository does not yet serve you. ## Google is split into six files and Microsoft into five A single company's settings are spread across several services, and the list reflects that. For Google the files are Gboard (Google Keyboard), Gmail, Google Account, Google Chrome/Ungoogled Chromium Desktop, Google Chrome Mobile and Google Search. YouTube has its own file as well. Microsoft follows the same pattern: Microsoft 365/Office, Microsoft Edge Desktop, Microsoft Edge Mobile, Microsoft SwiftKey, plus Windows 10 and Windows 11 as separate entries. Logitech sits close by with two pages, Logi Options+ and Logitech Options, which are two generations of the same mouse and keyboard software. This splitting has a practical benefit. The Google Account page is where account-level data controls live, and the Chrome page is where browser ones live, so you do not wade through one giant document. The downside is that a task spanning products, such as removing a service's access to your data everywhere, means opening several files and keeping track of which you finished. ## Desktop and mobile browsers are separate pages, and the Chromium forks are included Browser guides are split by platform. Brave has Brave Browser Desktop and Brave Browser Mobile, DuckDuckGo has Desktop and Mobile browser pages, Microsoft Edge and Vivaldi each have Desktop and Mobile, and Firefox has Firefox Desktop, Firefox Focus and Firefox Mobile/Fennec. Cromite and Google Chrome/Ungoogled Chromium Desktop round out the Chromium side. Search engines are treated as separate entries from their browsers: Brave Search, DuckDuckGo Search, Google Search and Startpage Search. The reason is visible in the structure, since a search engine's settings live on its website rather than inside the browser menu. The Extension Settings section covers uBlock Origin from the Extensions Settings/ folder. That is the only extension in the index, so settings for other blockers or privacy add-ons are not documented here. Note that the folder name is plural Extensions while the README heading is singular Extension, which matters if you are searching the file tree by name. ## Social and messaging apps are covered unevenly, and several popular ones are missing Social media has pages for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, Snapchat and X (Twitter). Messaging has Discord, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp and Zoom. Mail covers Gmail, Proton Mail and Tuta Mail. Amazon, ChatGPT, GitHub, Spotify and Visual Studio Code complete the app list. What you will not find: TikTok, Steam, Xbox, Microsoft Teams, and any Samsung or other vendor-specific skin. Those names show up in what people search for around this topic, yet the repository has no file for any of them. Zoom is present while Teams is not, so a work-call setup with Teams camera controls is outside what is written. The repository ships no tool that checks or changes any setting. It is prose with images. You make each change yourself, in the app, and nothing here verifies that a menu still exists in a newer release of that app. ## Maintenance runs through a changelog and contributions, with no releases The last push was on 25 September 2026, and the repository is not archived. There are no GitHub releases, so no tagged snapshot exists to cite. History lives in CHANGELOG.md, which the README links from its Changelog section. The README contents also point to sections on FAQs, Privacy Best Practices, Additional Resources (split into Recommendations, alternatives and reviews, and Privacy news, blogs, guides and more), Contributing and Credits. A CONTRIBUTING.md sits at the top level for anyone adding a new product page. Because apps change their menus without notice, any single guide can be out of date the day after an app update. The CHANGELOG.md is the first place to check how recently a given page was touched. A guide with no recent entry deserves a cross-check against the live app before you rely on it. ## Conclusion Use it when your device or service is on the list and you want a written walkthrough of its privacy menus: Android 11 to 17, Windows 10 and 11, the major browsers, and apps such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Signal. Look elsewhere for iPhone, Steam, TikTok, Teams or Xbox, which have no page. Before following any guide, match your app or OS version to the filename, because a guide for Android 15 will not describe an Android 17 menu. ## FAQ ### How do I change the privacy settings on Android with StellarSand/privacy-settings? Open the file that matches your Android version. The repository has separate guides for Android 11, 12/12.1, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17. ### How to use privacy settings on Facebook with StellarSand/privacy-settings? Open the Facebook entry under Privacy Settings in the README, which links to Facebook.md. Each guide is a standalone Markdown file for that one service. ### How to use privacy settings on WhatsApp with StellarSand/privacy-settings? The README links a WhatsApp.md file under Privacy Settings. Follow that guide on its own, since there is no shared page for messaging apps. ### How to use privacy settings on social media with StellarSand/privacy-settings? Pick the page for each network: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, Snapchat and X (Twitter) each have their own file. TikTok has no page. ## Sources - [Issues](https://github.com/StellarSand/privacy-settings/issues) - [License: MIT](https://github.com/StellarSand/privacy-settings/blob/main/LICENSE) - [README](https://github.com/StellarSand/privacy-settings/blob/main/README.md) - [StellarSand/privacy-settings on GitHub](https://github.com/StellarSand/privacy-settings) --- Hysen Labs editorial analysis, written from the project's own repository and release notes. Cite the canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/stellarsand-privacy-settings