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What's wrong with Apple Notes?
Your therapist can't even have a phone in the room?
I would prefer my psychological issues to not be turned into marketing campaigns. If you still don't understand what I am talking about, you should probably check the Privacy Policy of Google and Meta.
To save you some time: Google and Meta are monitoring the conversations using the device's microphone, to better understand what products you may be interested in. You have noticed, that ads are often related to the topics that you discuss face to face.
I've heard this claim many times for decades but never seen any legitimate evidence.
The only evidence I've seen is accidental recordings from digital "assistants" who mishear the wake phrase. But those only last a couple seconds. Meta has no such assistant.
In addition, Apple and Google both have had mic indicators for when the mic is on and listening for a long time so they'd have to somehow compromise the operating system as well.
To my surprise nobody delved into “open source” android code to find if any traces.
Why are you using quotations marks? On a serious note, Google's bloat isn't inherent to android, their stuff is added on top as apps and services.