Are there any Android settings that are essential to know about, from a security or privacy standpoint?

Hello. I just received a Google Pixel 5a. My previous phone had been broken for more than 6 months and my mom finally got fed up with not being able to contact me so she bought it for me as a gift. I plan to use it and am not really interested in installing a different OS; I'm not that social and am barely on the phone anyway so I don't want to obsess over it too much.

I've been …

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