That could mean anything from watching what they put on their iPhone, to putting them down the track of using degoogled android variants on select phones, to ditching cell phones all together depending on their needs.
Knowing that your phone is watching, reporting, and potentially moderating the content in it is information which is valuable in and of itself. Even if it only has utility to a fraction of the population.
We find ourselves in the tightening noose of a latent authoritarian technocratic surveillance society. Few people have anything to fear from it, or the resources to escape it. But some do, and should be given every piece of information that might help them moderate or escape it.
As I said, there are no good solutions.
* don't store images on your phone
* use a rom like Graphene, don't install a cloud storage or Google Play Services
Those aren't great solutions, but they're options.
If your goal is to inform a small minority of expert users that they should protect themselves against corporate/government encroachment, by the looks of the comments here, I’d say you’ve already succeeded.
This forum is too niche to fulfill that purpose on its own.
The mass distribution of the information, and arguments against apple's behavior should be intended to incidentally target relevant niches beyond technically expert circles of which the communicator is unaware.
That the argument and resolution of these issues is irrelevant to most of those who will be exposed to it is immaterial.
I’m not missing your point if you are changing your point after I have replied.
I haven't touched any of my comments since they first received a reply. I often touch my comments within a couple minutes of posting in order to correct typos or clarify my intentions, usually by appending a paragraph. But I don't do so without remark once they've become canonical in a thread.
Your replies to my comments are as they were written.
Your replies to my threads are as they were written.