Most of the time they do spell things, yeah, then there are the weird legacy holdover ones. The *3001#12345#* iPhone code is an old Nokia engineering screen code that probably only had meaning to Nokia S40/S60 engineers.

Samsung phones include McAfee, oddly.

Use Signal note to self and send it to yourself. Strips all metadata. Does resize larger images though.

Google is a sellout hypocrite of the highest order and has been for…15, 18 years?

If you read the alleged protection dialog, Google’s only blocks against 2G networks. The same of which many carriers allow, enable, or enforce blocking, and if not *#*#info#*#* let’s you do it yourself.

“2G network protection - Avoids 2G networks, which are less secure”