XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: thomas.e.elam@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/10/2026 3:02 PM, 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?   
      
   Don't know, don't care. The Apple phone and pad work great, stay updated   
   regularly on a know schedule, all by themselves. Unlike Android where I   
   had to use Google to find out if the phone I bought a year ago was ever   
   going to get an OS update. And was disappointed with the answer a few   
   times. Unlike my Samsung tablet that came with an outdated OS that did   
   get one update, then never. Unlike my Android devices that required   
   manual app reinstall when a new one was purchased, with no data history   
   carried over.   
      
   A former Android fan, I will never go back. I have seen the light. BUT,   
   at the same time very happy that the EU is breaking down the walled   
   garden too. I even get Google Maps as the CarPlay default now! And   
   YouTube Music as a default too! Nirvana.   
      
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