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There are no "toggles" that protect iOS users from data collection and surveillance by Apple

Today's Apple computers try to ping Apple servers the moment they are powered on for the first time. The devices incessantly try to "phone home". Apple's definition of "privacy" does not include privacy from Apple. That is not a coincidence

There is no "toggle" to enable this "convenience", i.e., usage of Apple servers, because it is, by design, on by default

This is not an opinion or a perspective (a "take"). It is a fact, verifiable with tcpdump or the like

One can focus on differences or one can focus on similarities. Many online commentators choose the former. But if focusing on similarities, then it is indisputably clear that Android and iOS are both designed to allow Google and Apple, respectively,^1 to conduct surveillance, data collection and provide ad services

1. Apple also allows Google to collect data from iOS users via default web search in exchange for recurring payement of several billion dollars

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/26/apples-eddy-cue-defends-defa...

One of the other facts that the court learned from the expert tetimony in this case is that defaults matter. If generally no one uses the "toggles", then Apple and Google operate as if they have "consent" to collect data, as if the computer owner voluntarily toggled "Allow surveillance, data collection and ads" to "ON"

"In-app advertising" is a growing business for Apple

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/global-app-store-help...

By design, in order to serve ads to iOS users, an app needs internet connectivity. Even when the app has no need for internet connectivity otherwise



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