Base Android with unmodified settings is terrible for privacy. If you're willing to put in the work to install LineageOS and move off of Google apps and jail/de

Base Android with unmodified settings is terrible for privacy. If you're willing to put in the work to install LineageOS and move off of Google apps and jail/delete them, it can become a superior option over iOS, if for no other reason that that you can set up competent adblocking and take advantage of Open Source replacements for apps like Youtube that don't transmit as much data. This is part of why it's tricky to make phone recommendations to privacy-conscious people. iOS is the clear winner on privacy for nontechnical people, and the clear loser on privacy for highly technical people. But a lot of people fall in the middle of that spectrum -- semi-technical -- and then it becomes complicated to figure out what they should do.