instead of google search: https://search.brave.com/

photos: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ente-photos/id1542026904

iphone settings: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/os/ios-overview/

I previously used GrapheneOS and it can definietly do what you are asking - under the permissions setting.

I would recommend not using the google services (even sandboxed) and use droid-ify as an alternative to download apps.

“found dead in his car outside Moscow with a gunshot wound and the principal hypothesis is that he took his own life, state investigators said on Monday, hours after President Vladimir Putin fired him.”

🤔

also, your data is stored in the EU