Maybe the answer is to get a basic burner phone for phone calls, look a maps, take pictures and send texts. Forget about surfing the web and all the other “great features”.
Except people are addicted to their phones.
An additional concern is with this back door stuff, ... can stuff be planted on a person’s phone now when the givernment-big tech complex wants to take a target down?
The back door stuff is what scares me.
They don’t like you, they plant something nefarious on your phone and you are toast.
Yep, Android burn phone and stay away from making an account with google, or installing apps from google playstore. It can be done with some minimalism as a practice.