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From: Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
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Subject: Re: Turn your device completely off once a week as per advice from
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Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 22:50:36 +0100
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Peter wrote:

> Both Google's and Apple's latest phones don't allow you to turn them off
> for real. The iPhones and the latest Pixels are still running Google's and
> Apple's tracking activities even when you think you've turned them off.

Now, I don't claim to know or care much about Apple products, but I 
think airtags are relatively popular?  Because of that, Google were 
/bound/ to want to match that feature, hence the [very] new 
functionality to findmydevice.

Yes, in a limited sense certain parts of your phone may never be "off", 
I suspect we don't know yet whether disabling the findmydevice feature 
*does* allow it to be really off.

Some people were paranoid about the covid tracking feature, but you 
could turn it off, or not install the app, and I don't remember any 
actual issue with it in the end?