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Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

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Post by Cider9986 » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 12:08 PM UTC

Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see
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Re: Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

#2

Post by paulirish » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 11:48 PM UTC

Would love this for MacOS as well.

Re: Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

#3

Post by bethekidyouwant » Sat, Jun 20, 2026, 11:53 PM UTC

paulirish wrote: post #2

Would love this for MacOS as well.

What “apps” do you use on a mac?

Re: Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

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Post by weikju » Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 12:03 AM UTC

paulirish wrote: post #2

Would love this for MacOS as well.

Fortunately, if you read the README (and decide to go past the “this was mostly built by AI” part,

> Loupe also builds for macOS. The Mac version is mostly complete, but a few things still need work before it's polished.

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Post by VertanaNinjai » Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 12:39 AM UTC

bethekidyouwant wrote: post #3

paulirish wrote: post #2

Would love this for MacOS as well.

What “apps” do you use on a mac?

Probably a ton since macOS apps are literally distributed as .app bundles.

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Post by internet2000 » Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 1:01 AM UTC

bethekidyouwant wrote: post #3

paulirish wrote: post #2

Would love this for MacOS as well.

What “apps” do you use on a mac?

Google Chrome, VS Code, among others

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Post by winstonwinston » Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 1:14 AM UTC

VertanaNinjai wrote: post #5

bethekidyouwant wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What “apps” do you use on a mac?

Probably a ton since macOS apps are literally distributed as .app bundles.

Though there is a difference what store apps and non-store apps can do. I think is about store apps which are “sandboxed” and have to use public api to request then access information which non-store apps can access without.

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#8

Post by regecks » Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 1:14 AM UTC

Damn. The "iPhone last setup or erased on ..." is really nasty. What can a user really do about that? I feel like this should be fudged somehow by the OS.

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 1:24 AM UTC

It's likely to be trolled by the WPA folks, who will insist that WPAs are just as insecure as native apps, so there's no difference ...

But very cool.

Re: Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

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Post by matthewfcarlson » Sun, Jun 21, 2026, 1:27 AM UTC

regecks wrote: post #8

Damn. The "iPhone last setup or erased on ..." is really nasty. What can a user really do about that? I feel like this should be fudged somehow by the OS.

Is the threat model tracking across multiple apps to correlate what you're doing? In that case, a single app wouldn't show you the fudging.