Apps draft off what the OS allows, iOS keeps adding features at the OS level (do not track, “app tracking health” metrics, advertising opt out, etc). At best Android grudgingly offers some of this after the fact, at worst does what this article offers.

Nevermind that iOS provides an extensive list of system-level data collection toggles. Don't want to contribute traffic data? Done. Don't want to contribute cellular/wifi location data? Done. Don't want your phone collecting data about what stores you visit and when? Done.

With Android, you don't have a choice for any of that. It just does it. Google Maps constantly slurps up every bit of location related information it can, whether you like it or not.

iOS even allows for forcing apps to only have access to coarse location data - it's off by a few miles - as well as only granting location data when the app is actually in use. Also options you don't get with Android.

The only thing I miss after switching: Android allowed for controlling not just cellular data but background data.

What the OS allows for third-party apps and what the OS allows for the software of the manufacturer are completely different.

This article is about Samsung's OS sending data to Samsung, Google's OS sending data to Google, etc. All of this data is fairly above and beyond what would be available to an app on any of the mentioned operating systems. Just because iOS disallows apps from collecting certain classes of data, does not mean it does not collect that same data to send to Apple.