The fear of my phone getting compromised/spied on remotely is slowly ruining me. For the past few months, I've lived with a constant feeling of anxiety and paranoia due to "weird" things happening on my phone. It felt like almost every morning I'd wake up to something "misplaced" or turned on without my prior knowledge. It always seems to exclusively happen when I'm asleep. At the start it was minor things such as my lockscreen clock being moved ever so slightly to the point where i notice it has moved, my phone getting weirdly hot in my pocket, the battery randomly draining without me using it for a while, a random link which i didn't save randomly appearing in my clipboard or my battery randomly being better at times and worse at other times. Today, I noticed that I am randomly connected to a VPN after opening my phone and seeing the key icon at the top. I haven't used the VPN for days at that point and it randomly seemed to connect while I was asleep despite my auto connect being off.…