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Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

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Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

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Post by Barbing »

jdiff wrote: post #138
a34729t wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or it is a mandated backdoor, and someone internally objected, and made it easier to exploit than it should be, or leaked how to exploit it?

Makes no sense for headspace to be using it if that were the case.

Conspiracy theory would get too convoluted:

Rogue employee employs the backdoor for a major app with hopefully conscientious users who’ll report it online; hopes to force a fix.

Or it was a social experiment and some dumb app reinstalls itself every day too but no one’s complained en masse yet! ;)

Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

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Post by Barbing »

0123456789ABCDE wrote: post #158
a34729t wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or it is a mandated backdoor, and someone internally objected, and made it easier to exploit than it should be, or leaked how to exploit it?

what's the more likely explanation though?

bug

Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

forsalebypwner wrote: post #112
nottorp wrote: post #99

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Probably requires a jailbroken ipad? I'll take it as a lesson to not even look at games on iOS [1]. I added it to my wish list on Steam, i might get it on a sale. [1] Not that iOS has many games. I can't afford the free ones.

No jailbreak required, just sideload it with a tool like Sideloadly. There are plenty of games, but it's understandable if you don't want to support Apple's practices.

Holy fucksticks. Does this really work? I could get back Marvin 3 on my phone...

Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

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Post by Barbing »

baq wrote: post #120
meindnoch wrote: post #104

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It was so fucking funny. I wonder what the engineer thought, who had to issue the SQL query which added Bono to literally everyone's collection. Like, I'm not surprised that management was so out of touch, but I'd expect the engineers to have a bit of common sense...

And do what? Quit and have someone else execute the query for something that’s in the grand scheme of things irrelevant?

There’s only a 99% chance they would’ve been fired for refusing though right?

Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

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Post by gordon_freeman »

sometimes if you have downloaded an app on Mac it automatically tries to install itself on iPhone due to some settings somewhere. Not saying that's the case with your app but I've noticed that with apps being installed on my iPhone when I install some apps on my Mac.

Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

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Post by Barbing »

chihuahua wrote: post #161
kotaKat wrote: post #135

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"We wanted to deliver a pint of milk to people's front porches, but in a few cases it ended up in their fridge, on their cereal. People were like, 'I'm dairy-free.'" -Bono Literally imagining the milk man bursting in to dump a gallon of milk on some poor sod's cereal this morning.

Not only that, but the milk man also acts like he did them a huge favor. And hides his huge fortune in a tax haven, while relentlessly campaigning for the government to increase the tax burden on those who actually pay taxes.

Helped eliminate poverty, hmm:

>Despite being well known for his extensive charity work, Bono has previously faced backlash over his tax dealings, with critics claiming that he could have helped to eliminate poverty if U2’s tax base remained based in Ireland.

>Instead, it previously transpired that U2 often put their money through the Netherlands, where tax rates have reportedly resulted in increased profits for the Irish rock icons.

>Two years ago, Bono dismissed the criticism as “just some smart people we have working for us trying to be sensible about the way we’re taxed. And that’s just one of our companies, by the way. There’s loads of companies”.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/bono-releases-statement-named...

Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

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Post by nostromar »

This was happening for me also. 3-4 days in a row it would reinstall in the evening. I’m on a new iPhone that never had the app installed. Automatic downloads wasn’t on, etc. finally noticed that signing out of “Media & Purchases” and then signing in again would make it install almost immediately. Could reliably repeat this any time of day. At one point I preempted the install by long pressing on the Headspace icon and selecting “Cancel Download”. It disappeared and hasn’t been back since.

Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

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Post by basisword »

mort96 wrote: post #126
meindnoch wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was so fucking funny. I wonder what the engineer thought, who had to issue the SQL query which added Bono to literally everyone's collection. Like, I'm not surprised that management was so out of touch, but I'd expect the engineers to have a bit of common sense...

I feel like that's the kind of thing it's easy to not recognise as a terrible idea until after it's done, because so much of what makes it a bad idea is a consequence of the rest of the system. Imagine if everything else surrounding the Apple ecosystem worked better. Imagine if people who don't actively use Apple Music never experienced Apple Music starting to play music by itself. Imagine if people who do use Apple…

>> I feel like that's the kind of thing it's easy to not recognise as a terrible idea until after it's done

I don't even think it was a terrible idea. It was just one of those things lots of people irrationally hooked on to. "We're giving you all a free record". Enough people made it 'bad' because people like to make a fuss. The only real issue with it was the inability to remove it which they later rectified.

Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

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Post by HoldOnAMinute »

con wrote: post #54

Just checked and it also installed itself on my phone. iPhone 17 Pro, non-US App Store, on latest iOS beta, no MDM. Sounds like an Apple Store bug to me.

I have never installed it, and currently don't have it installed.
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