[robotelvis]

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.

[JohnFen]

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.

[The_MeatMaster]

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

[floundy]

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.