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I carry a second phone with nothing on it but pictures taken with my "real" phone and some GPS/Travel apps to look "legit." Some might think it a bit of a PITA but I bulk edit the EXIF data of photos to say they were taken with the "decoy" phone before transferring them over. Granted, I only cross the border between US/Canada and US/Mexico and turn off and hide my "real" phone before entering the border queue. It has only been an issue once and they took the decoy away for all of 15 minutes while I waited in my truck and then brought it back and said "Thank you for your cooperation, have a nice day" and then I immediately factory reset then wiped it again and installed LineageOS to clear any spyware they might have put on it.