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> So you can have Location Services on but not send anything to Apple, unless the app does so itself.

There is no such setting. https://hifutureself.com/ios-location-system-services-settin...

It is not enough to disable Location Services for Apple apps. If any app requests location, even non-Apple apps, your location will be sent to Apple, as I showed above.

> I am assuming you're claiming this is an Android device?

You can use them without sending data anywhere you don't want.

> iPhones are "dumb",

I was very clearly riffing off the term "smartphone." A phone that has network disabled as you suggested cannot be called smart. What's the opposite of smart?




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