How to Find Out Who’s Tracking You Through Your Smartphone

Panayiotis Georgiou
3 min readFeb 1, 2017

How often do you use your smartphone?

If you’re like nearly 80% of smartphone users, you have your phone with you nearly 24/7

With the help of just a few short codes, you can find out more about the settings of your phone and information are protected or whether you’re being tracked.

Check out the codes

We gathered the most useful and important codes for smartphones all in one article.

Code #1

*#21#

This simple code let you find out whether your calls, messages, and other data are being diverted.

The status of the different types of diversions that are taking place along with the number the information is being transferred to will be displayed on your phone’s screen.

Code #2

*#62#

This code let you find out where calls, messages, and data are being redirected to if it seems that no one can get through to you.

The chances are in this case that your voice calls are being redirected to one of your cell phone operator’s numbers.

Code #3

##002#

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