XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-01-10 12:02, Maria Sophia wrote:   
   > Q: How frequently does iOS phone home in the background   
   >     to its mothership tracking servers, even when idle?   
   > A: ?   
   >   
   > How often, even when idle, does Apple secretly contact its mainframes?   
   >   a. Minutes?   
   >   b. Hours?   
   >   c. Days?   
   >   
   > Why?   
      
   There are no "mothership tracking servers", Arlen.   
      
   There are services that Apple provides, none of which you need to use   
   except the App Store, and you can sign in to the App Store only when you   
   need to get or update an app and then sign out again.   
      
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