Mobile phones. You can't modify the hosts file on an Android phone without rooti...

		AdmiralAsshat on Aug 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Tried Hiding from Big Tech in a Pile of Privacy ... Mobile phones. You can't modify the hosts file on an Android phone without rooting the phone. I'm not even sure how you would do it on an iPhone. Both of them, however, allow you to manually specify the IP of a DNS server in advanced network settings.