Can you disable telemetry entirely? Can you use an iPhone without an iCloud account? Without connecting to Apple servers? I believe not, but would be happy to be proven wrong!

I personally never had much faith in Apple (although i was a big fan of older MacOS UX), but these latest developments have completely broken any expectations i had from them:

- Apple Disables FaceID if you change the screen yourself [video] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28666836

- Old iPhones become faster if you change the region to France https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28291768

- macOS unable to open any non-Apple application https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959

There was also this comparative study of iOS/Android telemetry: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf

It concludes:

> We find that even when minimally configured and the handset is idle both iOS and Google Android share data with Apple/Google on average every 4.5 mins. The phone IMEI, hardware serial number, SIM serial number and IMSI, handset phone number etc are shared with Apple and Google. Both iOS and Google Android transmit telemetry, despite the user explicitly opting out of this. When a SIM is inserted both iOS and Google Android send details to Apple/Google. iOS sends the MAC addresses of nearby devices, e.g. other handsets and the home gateway, to Apple together with their GPS location. Currently there are few, if any, realistic options for preventing this data sharing.