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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
#82Very interesting, especially if it found a way to bypass the explicit disabling of automatic downloads…
Now imagine you’re roaming during a 10-day vacation…and you think you’re in control :) …
Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
#83Do you have TestFlight installed? That’s the only other way I can think of delivering apps besides the App Store and MDM.
Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
#84This isn't the first system bug that primarily was visible due to headspace: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/02/ios-11-1-2-date-bug-cra...
In 2017 it was an endless crash loop caused by any app with local time-based notifications.... Which for almost everyone at the Apple store I visited was meditation apps with daily meditation reminders (in Australia we were among the first to wake up on that affected date. The fix went out before most of the remaining world woke up)
I wonder if the daily reminder is triggering a reinstall? Perhaps try disabling the reminders before uninstalling.
Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Facebook Ads SDK in a mental health app isn’t normal. Or shouldn’t. Even analytics SDKs is a bit weird to see. Are Amplitude or Sentry hosting data with a healthcare compliant infrastructure ? I won’t bet. Are those SDKs for sure not leaking health care data? It can be inadvertently, especially with Sentry. But I really wonder about why people feel the need to track so much. Do they **** in front of PowerPoint sl…
They are normal. They generally want to know if the ad spend resulted in an install. Health care data is radioactive and they would be fucking up very hard if sending this to an analytics service.
I have seen studies where some apps were fucking up very hard and sending healthcare data to services that shouldn’t receive it. Sometimes in clear text.
My trust is very low. Having healthcare data in a Sentry payload by mistake happens to the best of us.
Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Facebook Ads SDK in a mental health app isn’t normal. Or shouldn’t. Even analytics SDKs is a bit weird to see. Are Amplitude or Sentry hosting data with a healthcare compliant infrastructure ? I won’t bet. Are those SDKs for sure not leaking health care data? It can be inadvertently, especially with Sentry. But I really wonder about why people feel the need to track so much. Do they **** in front of PowerPoint sl…
They are normal. They generally want to know if the ad spend resulted in an install. Health care data is radioactive and they would be fucking up very hard if sending this to an analytics service.
Health care companies are radioactively affected by mishandling healthcare data (give or take practical impact being very toothless, especially nowadays). The data itself is mostly not an issue though under any legal theories, and if Joe Schmo hedge fund digs up your colon photos that's not usually an issue.
Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
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,…
Maybe the developer was using Headspace as part of the test data and it bled into production? It's hard to imagine what Headspace would like to achieve if this were an exploit executed by them. It's so salient, that it makes no sense to do on purpose. At least some portion of Apple employees and their families are going to be affected by this, and this would escalate to the legal department immediately. My money is o…
> My money is on Apple being the buggy one here.
Yeah I'm thinking some sort of test artifact bleeding into prod and subject so some nightly process is likely the case.
Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
#88@_-x-_: "Settings > App Store > Show Install Confirmations > On". Maybe that helps?
This setting does not exist on iOS 26.4.1
Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
#89Meanwhile, I can't install an iOS game i bought in 2021 (Azure Saga if it matters) because it's delisted from the app store.
Damned if you pay them, damned if you don't.
Re: Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
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