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donkey_brainstoday at 3:44 AM4 repliesview on HN

But why this one specific app and no others?


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layer8today at 5:18 AM

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

altairprimetoday at 5:33 AM

Maybe Apple typo’d an app id incorrectly for some iOS core app thing in 26.4.2 and the one-character error is this app? I don’t know that anyone’s done a ‘likelihood of collision’ analysis on appstore unique IDs yet. Certainly I could see iOS having a “must be on the device” system set up for apps like Phone and Settings that has a last-ditch of reinstalling it if somehow deleted. Would be especially interesting if some core app that can’t normally be deleted is currently unprotected (back up your device locally first!).

_-x-_today at 3:55 AM

Right, that's what confuses me the most. I was very surprised to find the reddit thread showing that other people are also having this specific app silently installed on their devices.

breppptoday at 4:57 AM

Headspace leaves health data, that's where my first guess would be