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Disconnect the cell antenna? Of course this would stop the over the air updates (maybe not a bad thing, every update brings new, surprising glitches).
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That would also kill the navigation. The UConnect 8.4 units use the cell connection to determine GPS position.

You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.
 

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If you use a Apple or Android phone,( using Google/gmail) you are carrying around a built in spy.
No tin foil will help.
 

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If you use a Apple or Android phone,( using Google/gmail) you are carrying around a built in spy.
No tin foil will help.
Obviously if the OP is so worried about big brother they don’t own a cell phone or use the internet. OP probably had an anonymous friend start this thread even.
 

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Notifications from where? Phone? E-mail? Emergency Broadcast System?

I've never received notifications for tire pressure or oil, but I tend to opt out of every notification.

Correction: the jeep will yell at you for low tire pressure.

I basically turn off every notification, except the ones that tell me about tornadoes, microbursts, and abductions.
I would get an email every time I aired down at a trailhead warning me that my tire pressure was low.

Well duh!
 

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I assume this only applies to the 8.4” screen... can anyone confirm that the 5 and 7 inch screens don’t “phone home”?
 

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I regularly receive notices from FCA about my Jeep's tire pressure and oil condition, I consider this to be spyware and want to turn it off.
Does anyone know how or if it can be done? I don't like Big Brother or FCA watching me.
You want to disconnect the Sirius/XM antenna above the soundbar. I'm just waiting for mine to expire at the end of the month.
 

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The smaller radios don’t have a cell connection.
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I would get an email every time I aired down at a trailhead warning me that my tire pressure was low.

Well duh!
That's crazy. I don't think I have that good a signal, to send and receive an e-mail each time, and I definitely don't remember giving the jeep an e-mail address to begin with; I'll have to check my spam. Maybe you can hard-reset the jeep and re-do the preferences?

I slogged through the menus for quite a while on first setup.
 

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I get “vehicle health reports” on my cell phone about once every couple of months. I kinda like it. If one of my tires has a slow leak while in my garage all week this service let’s me know the tire is going low. I’d rather that than find a flat 4:00 AM on a Saturday morning when I’m ready to head upstate.
 

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Just because you consider that spyware, doesn’t mean that follows the conventional definition of spyware.
 

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My onstar does the same thing in my Tahoe. Every month. No big deal. It comes to my “good” email address. I never noticed it sending me spam email. I get zero span on that address cause very few businesses or people have it. I never signed up for guardian. Don’t get anything on my Jeep. I really don’t look at this as spyware. I have tried to keep myself as safe as possible but at this point woth how we are plugged in it’s pretty impossible at this point. I do what I can. But even being in these forums you are accepting cookies and other stuff most likely. I do stay away from all social media cause that is just my choice. And I only use this forum and a few others. But again. It’s almost impossible.
 

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Take the tin foil hat off your head and place it over the antenna module. Problem solved.
Is there any place I can wrap my Jeep in tin foil, basically make it a huge Faraday cage. It will be a plus if the tin foil come with color selections, I like it to be camo so it can match my zombie surviving kit.
 
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