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 Sorry, I just found out that wallet bitcoin addresses change everytime you recieve or send a transaction, so anyone who looks up the address doesn’t know the total amount of your wallet, the total amount they see is the amount of only that transaction. 
Considering this, is there an extra benefit to coinjoin services that I’m missing? Isn’t this “address changing” feature enough to keep curious people from knowing your wallet??
Thank you. 

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 Two points:

 (a) absent some sort of "mixing" process, it's possible for someone to trace the blockchain history of a given aliquot of bitcoin, and 

(b) when you "spend" bitcoin, it's likely that BTC from 2 or more addresses will be combined, thereby compromising anonymity.  
 Ok, so that feature is not enough. I’ll still be looking for a good coinjoin service then, thank you.  
 study chain analysis and you will understand more in dept why

give you a hint.

you have an address with 0.02,another one with 0.02, another with 0.03, another with 0.03, you pay someone 0.09BTC.

The wallet will take all 0.1BTC and return you the difference, 0.01

Chain analysis now knows you had those 4 addresses and all transactions ever done with those 4 addresses... That is why silent payments is so important, currently only Bluewallet and Cake Wallet supports it, soon more will do so.

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 Excellent, that actually explains it very well. One of the wallets I use is bluewallet but I didn’t know about that feature, I’ll check my settings. 
 It depends on the type of transaction and the source. And how deeply the person investigating wants to look. And whether they have subpoena power to acquire other info like your banking info or transaction record with a KYC exchange. 

@BTCsessions has some awesome info on UTXO management and hygiene, as does Wicked, both on YouTube 
 I have seen those videos, unfortunely they require a computer, I haven’t found a method that works on ipad or iphone.