Re: Turn your device completely off once a week as per advice from the NSA today

Peter wrote:

Both Google's and Apple's latest phones don't allow you to turn them off
for real. The iPhones and the latest Pixels are still running Google's and
Apple's tracking activities even when you think you've turned them off.

Now, I don't claim to know or care much about Apple products, but I think airtags are relatively popular?  Because of that, Google were /bound/ to want to match that feature, hence the [very] new functionality to findmydevice.
Yes, in a limited sense certain parts of your phone may never be "off", I suspect we don't know yet whether disabling the findmydevice feature *does* allow it to be really off.
Some people were paranoid about the covid tracking feature, but you could turn it off, or not install the app, and I don't remember any actual issue with it in the end?