Common Workflows

Recipes for the most common things people do with AirLeak. Each is a step-by-step walkthrough, copy the steps, follow along. All of them run in the ZeroTrace mobile app.

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Recipe 1: Find a tracker that may be following you

Goal: Determine if any tracker has been with you for hours.

1. Pair the AirLeak in the app. Switch to Monitor.
2. Keep it with you through your normal day (commute, errands).
3. Periodically open the Live tab and tap the Trackers chip.
4. Watch for a device that keeps reappearing, or one flagged by the multi_hour_follower signal (it shows as high severity).
5. Open its detail page; check the first-seen time, separated state, and observation count.
6. If it's unfamiliar, use Hunt to lock onto it and confirm whether it follows you across locations. See Tracker Detection.

Time: Run all day. A few minutes to review.

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Recipe 2: Locate an unknown tracker (Fox Hunt)

Goal: Physically find a tracker you've spotted.

1. In the Live tab, find the tracker and note it.
2. Open the Hunt tab and tap the device to lock onto it.
3. Walk around. AirLeak turns the device's live RSSI into a proximity gauge plus a radar dial, the reading strengthens as you get closer.
4. Move toward stronger signal until you find it. (For AirTags you can also trigger a sound via the Find My app.)

Time: 5–15 minutes.

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Recipe 3: Audit your own iPhone's BLE privacy

Goal: See what your iPhone broadcasts over Bluetooth and reduce leaks.

1. Switch to Monitor. Open the Live tab.
2. Search for your iPhone's name and tap it.
3. Check each section:
   • Header, is the name personal? Rename in iOS Settings → General → About → Name (the BLE name follows it).
   • Apple state, note the OS major version (is it current?) and that the lock/action state is broadcasting.
   • AirDrop, if it shows discoverable / "Everyone", set AirDrop to Contacts-only in iOS.
4. See Privacy Audit for the full checklist.

Time: 10 minutes.

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Recipe 4: Quick "who's around me" check

Goal: See what's nearby in a new space (hotel, conference room, rental).

1. Switch to Monitor. Wait 60 seconds.
2. Open Insights for the room composition (class breakdown, top vendors, exposure).
3. Open Live and use the filter chips to drill in:
   • Trackers, anything left in the room?
   • Apple / Android, how many people are around?
   • Severe, anything broadcasting a strong leak?

Time: 5 minutes.

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Recipe 5: Watch your own iPhone's state in real time (demo)

Goal: Demonstrate to someone what their phone broadcasts.

1. Switch to Monitor. Open the target iPhone's detail page in the app.
2. Pick up the iPhone, watch the action change to screen_on.
3. Lock it, watch the lock state change within 1–2 s.
4. Open an app or make a call, watch the action change.

This is the most striking AirLeak demo, most people don't believe their phone broadcasts these states until they see it live. See Apple Continuity Decoding.

Time: 5 minutes.

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Recipe 6: Run a wardrive

Goal: Map and log every BLE device along a route.

1. Open the Drive tab and tap Start. The app switches the unit to Wardrive (max-rate scan) and begins recording your GPS track.
2. Drive or walk your route. Devices are stamped on the map at the spot they were heard strongest; the HUD shows the running count and discovery rate.
3. Tap Pause to hold logging, or End to finish.
4. On End, the session is saved to Drive History and you can Export a WiGLE-format CSV.
5. Community wardriving maps and leaderboards live on the dashboard.

Time: Setup is instant; capture is your route length.

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Recipe 7: Use TraceNet (swarm) nodes

Goal: Feed advertisements from extra nodes into one hub for wider coverage.

1. Enable swarm support on the hub (the swarm_enabled setting, off by default).
2. Open the TraceNet tab to see the node list and approve nodes.
3. During a drive, open the swarm panel from the Drive map to see per-source unique-device counts.

See the ZeroTrace Mobile App docs for the full TraceNet workflow.

Time: A few minutes of setup.

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