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Ok, I'm a cranky old nerd. I'll say some silly shit here ...
Nobody should have the Facebook or Instagram apps installed on their phone.
For one thing, those are websites. You don't need the app.
For another, they kill your battery because they are so damn busy spying on you.
Really, there have absolutely always been known privacy issues with those. This whole thing was known well before they proved the exact method
Until this phone, Facebook always came installed and couldn't be uninstall without hacking the phone.
In the phones I've had, you could deactivate it even if it can't be uninstalled.
I'm not an advanced phone user, the deactivating of apps confuses me... I think I have also seen things get stealth reactivated on updates (my samsung). Hard to trust if this helps anything...
My relatives think their amazon echoes are not spying on them because they opted out of being spied on as a tangential example
This is the correct answer. When I get a new phone I rip out the bloatware and disable the rest. It usually takes a couple days to achieve a minimal but stable config. Yes updates reenable things. Maintenance is required if you want privacy.