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Cool that you were able to do that.

There are definitely lots of things you need a smartphone for today, but fortunately few enough that it's practical to not have a smartphone with you most of the time, even if you own one.

Hopefully if enough people go phoneless, society will adapt to require smartphones less often.

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Fortunately, so far, there is nothing that I need to do that I actually have to have a smartphone for. Hopefully that will remain true for a long while.

Hopefully. I still can't get around the fact that Apple implements AI in their phones. They're probably monitoring the information.

Apple Intelligence can be entirely disabled, I did it on both my iPhone and my Mac and it hasn't bothered me about it since.

Actually Apple seems decent with storing personal information on-device, or at least giving the user options to control it. As shown in my pi-hole, my Apple devices send way less requests to tracking and data harvesting domains compared to Microsoft and Google/Android products.

> my Apple devices send way less requests to tracking and data harvesting

Isnt that just the APIs retrying when blocked?

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