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

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Post by altairprime »

lovich wrote: post #49
anon84873628 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least they're exposing their nefarious plans for the purposes of... Offering people mental healthcare? It's probably just some Apple bug.

Why did a mental healthcare company have the ability to exploit this? Do you think they accidentally found this 5 seconds before their exploit was launched or do you think they might have actually put some effort into doing this since they are an organization of people.

I cannot possibly imagine the company as a whole would approve of this, much less anyone at the company who wants to keep their job. If it’s found that they exploited Apple to cause this, Apple might force-remove their app worldwide and definitely will kill their developer account pending any lawsuits. That’s the sort of thing that gets a CMO fired. Seems extremely unlikely, but if their C_O gets fired on Monday or Friday, then we’ll probably know why :D

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

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Post by layer8 »

donkey_brains wrote: post #28
_-x-_ wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I think the latter is more likely than the former. Perhaps a server side bug that's silently downloading the app on any device that's installed it previously?

But why this one specific app and no others?

Maybe it’s Apple’s equivalent of Guru Meditation.

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

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Post by csomar »

> Does anyone understand how or why this is happening?

They are drowning in tech debt. Here are two main issues I have with my iPhone/iOS: I can't search for the telegram app. It doesn't show up. It shows fine on the iPad. Also just a few minutes ago, app search decided not to work. I usually use it to pull my Wallet to pull my card. It was an awkward moment as I had no idea where the wallet app actually is.

I have lost count of the minor polish issues. The experience has degraded so much that you no longer care.

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

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Post by trueno »

cortesoft wrote: post #39
_-x-_ wrote: post #19

Here's a Reddit thread of other people experiencing the same issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1su82sc/headspace_app_...

This is fascinating. I am very curious to find out what the actual cause of this turns out to be.

same. i get blasted with ads for this app on whatever platform, never installed it myself. the amount of promotions + this = my underdeveloped brain is so ready to assume the worst here. been a while since i used my pitchfork & i'm here for the riot.

if it is, in fact, something nefarious at play that would be a pretty crazy 2026 era exploit. but i'm certain it's a bug/artifact of some sort that, for whatever reason, affects this specific app.

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

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Post by makeitdouble »

efilife wrote: post #40
treexs wrote: post #22

this is the plot of Persona 5

how heavy of a spoiler is this? I wanted to play it

It's covered in the first 10~20min or so of the game, and is really a minor side point.

Off topic, put P5 as a game doesn't really care about spoilers much, there is one specific story telling gimmick that will screw with you if you're really sensitive to these kind of things.

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