Ah, thanks for clarifying the question, and it's a really good one, and I haven't seen the answer to that. I'm guessing it would have been part of one recent up

Ah, thanks for clarifying the question, and it's a really good one, and I haven't seen the answer to that. I'm guessing it would have been part of one recent update to the OS, and the feature then gets enabled on a certain date or remotely or something like that. And your final question "What else are they capable of doing without my permission?" --- the answer is anything they want. Concretely, what are the capabilities installed NOW that they can take advantage of, who knows exactly? As an example, I do remember a looong time ago Google remotely removed apps from Android phones, pretty sure Apple could or might even have done so as well.