How do I use the Ghost Sleeve?
From the confidential morning meeting to the nightstand, the Refuge Ghost (Faraday) Sleeve was designed to block all your phone's surveillance features whenever you want total privacy, while your phone is not in active use.
The Ghost Sleeve is not meant to bury your phone 24/7, nor can it be used while your phone is actively being used.
But I have nothing to hide.
Any moment of your day when you wouldn't want a hidden camera, mic, and GPS recording and following you, you should consider that your phone is all the above. These moments are what the Ghost Sleeve was designed for.
Beyond the shorter term security and blackmail risks of stalkers and hackers (and this happens more often than it makes the news), big tech has also proven to be highly untrustworthy with its access to these features on our phones, from insecure storage of our personal data, to ignoring our privacy settings, and selling details of our personal lives behind our backs.
It's not about what you have to hide, but what you have to protect.
Doesn't Airplane Mode or turning my phone off prevent me from being tracked?
In short, no. In airplane mode, some outgoing signal is blocked, but location and other signals can be received. They can be tracked even when powered off, because a phone isn’t actually off until it’s battery is removed. For more information on this common question,click here.
Will it drain my phone's battery?
While it is true that battery can drain faster than normal as a phone repeatedly tries and fails to find signal, this issue is solved by quickly swiping the phone into airplane mode before longer periods in the sleeve.
Will I miss out on texts and voicemails?
Texts and voicemails missed while signal is lost inside the sleeve will be received when signal is regained outside the sleeve.
Does it protect me from WiFi/5G radiation, and EMP?
We start with a premium quality Faraday fabric inner lining, and then add a custom touch to it to make it even stronger, blocking even higher frequency 5G that other sleeves miss. We are confident our American-made Ghost Sleeve will protect your device from tracking, radiation, and EMP as well as anything on the civilian market.
Privacy, security, and peace of mind, at the drop of your phone.
Your trip to the grocery store, detailed to which aisles you paused at. Your friend’s house. Your child’s school. Everything we do is recorded by our smartphones and sold to various shady data companies, behind our backs, thousands of times per day. The tech giants are forced, almost annually, to admit they record audio, tap our cameras, and track our location, even when users have those settings turned off. So far, in 2026, Apple spent nearly $2B acquiring a startup that specializes in "deciphering whispered speech", and Google admitted to recording, storing, and selling private audio conversations behind our backs.
Do with that info what you will. But we have our concerns.
Where this data is going, and what companies intend to do with it in the future, is a mystery to everyone, often including those who collect it. We have believed since our inception in 2019 that this is something we should guard against- both in our desire to help Americans and our friends abroad remain free, and in our contempt of tech companies, hackers, and governments worldwide who believe they are entitled to your personal data and private life.
We created the Refuge Ghost (Faraday) Sleeve in 2020 to solve this problem. We, like most people operating in the modern world, don’t have the luxury of not owning a smartphone, but aimed to mitigate its side effect of being our own personal spy while it isn't being used. After creating the first camera and microphone blocking phone case the prior year, we created the first location-blocking Faraday sleeve that also includes sound blocking panels inside. Not meant to bury your phone 24/7, the Ghost Sleeve is here whenever you'd like to create a void in the invasive data gathering of your private life, or a simple break from digital life's endless noise.
Unlike low-grade, foreign-made alternatives, we’ve made ours with enhanced signal blocking, shielding higher frequency 5G that most sleeves miss- keeping users off the map in higher frequency areas. We have also proudly made ours in America from day one, with beautiful, durable American Buffalo leather, inspected all the way down to the 3.0 model’s color-matched, hand-painted edges.
From battlefields to board rooms, the Refuge Ghost Sleeve is trusted by forward thinking people from all walks of life, who don’t wait until disaster to take their privacy and security seriously.
At Refuge, we have been working to keep your private life private, since 2019.
The Refuge Ghost 3.0 Faraday Phone Sleeve
Your smartphone is useful, and you probably need it close by. The catch is that its cameras, microphones, and location tracking gives hackers, stalkers, big tech and data brokers access to your private life- and this can happen even when the phone is powered off. The American-Made, Bison Leather, Refuge Ghost Faraday Sleeve makes it disappear in those moments of your day that you’d like to keep private, from the morning meeting to the nightstand, protecting your private life and personal information. It's also a great "barrier" to help simply unplug once in a while.
Our 3.0 Ghost Sleeve blocks all signal to and from your phone, including higher frequency 5G that other sleeves miss. In addition to the signal, Bluetooth and location blocking, it is also the only Faraday sleeve with sound blocking added. A step up from our discontinued 2.0 sleeve, the 3.0 has beautifully hand-painted color match edges, which allow heavier-duty usage for customers using the Ghost Sleeve “in the field”. Made entirely in America, not just "designed" here.
Most wait until they have a security or data incident to take their privacy seriously.
The Ghost Sleeve is for those who plan ahead.
For sizing help, please see size guide photo, and for your phone’s exact dimensions, click here. For further sizing help, see our Size Guide FAQ here.
