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Is turning off my phone or just like... lining a bag with aluminum foil for my phone good enough?
turning it off probably is good enough for most devices, but its easy to bump the button and turn it back on. DIY faraday bag is possible but not as trivial as it sounds. You'd want to test it carefully and make sure it wasn't getting signal in the bag, probably by doing things like calling it or locating it from a computer with "find my". There are probably more ways to test but that's a start
Keep your phone turned off, yes. Also make sure it only unlocks with a strong password and not your thumb, face, etc. Police can compel you to provide thumb, face, etc but not to enter a password.
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Lining a bag with foil won't make things worse, but it's not sufficient on it's own. Make sure your phone is put in airplane mode with all radios turned off, then turn the phone off. We don't fully know what kind of information snooping tools the security forces have right now so it's better to be paranoid/precautionary principle.