What's this location transmission that's ostensibly happening every 4.5 minutes? Which app does that?

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Assuming he doesn't mean location but means pinging cell towers which is a proxy

The OS does that in the background.

Check the 2021 Trinity College Dublin study:

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf

"Mobile Handset Privacy: Measuring The Data iOS and Android Send to Apple And Google"

If you don’t want to be tracked - don’t carry a cellphone. Even a GrapheneOS powered phone is going to be periodically updating its location to the nearest cell tower to keep the HLR updated.

Yes but that's quite coarse grained.

Better than within 500m from what I understand. And 5G probably better.

Yeah not close enough to tell which shop or which doctor I'm attending.

Be a submarine and use a Faraday bag. Only surface when you absolutely need to.

That's why you have airplane mode.