My first faraday bag was a 'HODUFY' pouch. It works fine.

After that, I bought the Nickle/Copper fabric from China and tested making pouches using cyanoacrylate glue and velcro strips. I found a supplier now that sells 10 m x 1.1 m fabric for $65 + shipping.

If you are in a hurry and you only want the cellphone pouch, you can buy a cheaper pouch online and test that you cannot call it nor connect via Bluetooth when it is inside the pouch. Working with the fabric directly lets you make custom pouches by cutting, folding, and gluing.

Here are some photos of a HODUFY and the DIY pouch. In the third photo you can see that the material inside the pouch is a similar type of Nickel/Copper fabric.

To make the pouch, a single piece is cut into a rectangle and folded in half, leaving three open sides. Two of the three open sides are folded over twice and glued shut. The remaining side is the opening, which makes use of velcro strips to close. This opening also needs to be folded when closing, like this:

The key point here is that you do not pierce the fabric, and you make sure that the edges are sealed shut properly by folding.

Use an SLNT bag

Aluminum foil works. At least, I can't receive calls or texts through it last I tried.

Get the heavy duty kind. It's not any more conductive, but is more durable against tearing.

Note that a gap in your phone's tracking data can look suspicious at times. Sometimes it's less suspicious to leave your phone at home.

Using a few anti-static bags inside one another doesn't block 100% of signals but it cuts range down by a lot. But also, if you're looking for this high of a security level, wouldn't it be easier to just find a phone with a removable battery?

Bags don’t really work, but hard shell boxes do.

Back when I was working with radio devices, we needed real isolation on lab benches, along with the ability to selectively allow RF paths with specific impedance. The gold standard was Ramsey test equipment enclosures, and they really work (although they only provide isolation up to about 90 dB at the frequencies we cared about; for extreme isolation sometimes we had to nest two like Matryoshka dolls).

It doesn’t sound like you need any conducted signal, just isolation, so that will make for a cheaper bulkhead. Here’s the smallest/cheapest Ramsey enclosure. You can probably find used ones on ebay for less, but you may need to hunt for a while.

Another company that makes real enclosures is ETS Lindgren but they’re larger and much more expensive.

If you don’t like the weight/bulk/cost of that solution, then no, you’re not going to find something that actually works.

First off, there's 200 more practical things you can do first. A Faraday bag isn't going to accomplish more long term then your phone simply being stripped of bloat and tracking apps, or simply being turned off.

That being said, if you must, Mission Darkness bags are decent, and I've tested them and they do block WiFi, BT, and cellular signals.

YMMV, and understand that when you phone is in the bag, it might as well be turned off. You can't access it without opening the bag.

Are you trying to EMP-proof your phone, or block signals/tracking for a time?

I don't think I am the target audience for these products, and have no answers for you, but am curious what these would do above what turning the device off. Is a device that is powered off still reachable? Or is this not about that?

Anyway, on to the non answers, when i worked around wiring that needed to not be affected by interference from adjacent wiring, it would we shielded by aluminum. It was thicker than household foil, and had braiding. The wires could be run with other, non shielded wires, most of which were dramatically different voltages.

I am not a scientist 😅

Rather than going down the rabbit hole of faraday bags, why not gain a better understanding of how you are being tracked every day so you can take steps to alleviate your concern?

Elsewhere you said you don’t want to be tracked going to the doctors office, but if you drive there your cars license plate is being read by dozens of traffic cameras. If you walk or take a bus there are most likely cameras which are accessible to law enforcement that can be used for computer vision if they don’t already do so automatically.

In the event that you drove, it’s likely that your cars wheel mounted sensors are emitting unique rf signals even if it’s infotainment system doesn’t have immediate connectivity (it definitely does and is tracking and reporting unique ids of devices near it).

The places you went before the doctors office are selling your purchase history (that’s why they give you a deal when you enter your phone number at checkout!), your voter registration information is freely available to any group that can register a political organization and if you paid property taxes then those records are publicly accessible and searchable.

WiFi can even be used, experimentally at this point, to pinpoint the physical location of people in a room based only on how their bodies interfere with the high frequency signal.

The point of this post is not to send you into a panic but to help broaden the scope of stuff you’re considering and maybe help you come to a more complete solution.

I have a bag from silent pocket. Works great.

SLNT Faraday stuff is supposed to be good. I've never used one. Michael Bazzell recommends them.

Something meant to maintain a high or low temperature. A Thermos or pizza delivery bag or a bag for bringing frozen groceries home. Some might just be foam, but there are also ones with metalic coating or a steel shell.

Does a microwave work?

From what I heard you won't find a real Faraday bag that works well and blocks almost all signals, those found on Amazon are really not that effective and only "military grade" bags could be useful in these kind of threats

I do!

My use of a Faraday bag is more prepper oriented (i.e. solar flares) instead of geared towards privacy, but I keep a Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS, linux laptop, and eReader in a SLNT Faraday bag.

My tests have been far from perfect, but the phone's Bluetooth and cell reception have all ceased working once put in the bag.