Google Collects 20 Times More Data From Android Than Apple Collects From iOS, Study Shows

Google’s Android reportedly collects more user data than Apple’s iOS for iPhones, new research has found. According to iOS and Android researcher Douglas Leith from Trinity College in Ireland, Google’s mobile operating system collects about 20 times more data than its Apple counterpart. It notes that a Pixel smartphone sends roughly 1MB of data to Google, whereas an iPhone transmits around 42KB of data to Apple within the first 10 minutes of the phone’s initiation process. When sitting idle, the Pixel device reportedly sends out roughly 1MB of data to Google every 12 hours, compared with the iPhone sending 52KB data to Apple for the same period. In the study ‘Mobile Handset Privacy: Measuring The Data iOS and Android Send to Apple And Google,’ Leith states, “The collection of so much data by Apple and Google raises at least two major concerns.