It's definitely not "every bit the Google tracking device", simply because iPhones do not use Google services for assisted GPS. Unless you fully de-Google an An

It's definitely not "every bit the Google tracking device", simply because iPhones do not use Google services for assisted GPS. Unless you fully de-Google an Android phone, it'll keep reporting the nearby networks, cell towers and other wireless beacons to Google in the background. On iOS, this doesn't happen by default, because this data is sent to Apple instead. I have just one Google app installed: Maps. Its location settings are set to only allow location access when the app is open, so it collects very little data useful to Google. I can probably switch to Apple Maps, but I don't know whether the quality of navigation and public transport data is as good as Google Maps. If it turns out to be similar, I'm likely to switch, because I'm only staying with GMaps thanks to the data quality.