Icons in Passwords.app and App Privacy Report
Mysk:
The Passwords app now categorizes the network requests to download the icons as “websites visited in app” and this way the number of requests sent isn’t included in the main count in the #privacy report.
This new categorization makes the requests less visible to privacy-conscious as the app won’t show spikes of 130+ requests as we demonstrated before in iOS 18 and iOS 18.2.
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iOS still doesn’t provide an option to disable downloading the icons, which is the best way to tackle this issue.
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If the app directly contacts the websites, which is the case with Apple Passwords, the app might be at risk of receiving a malicious payload from remote web servers.
It was using unencrypted HTTP, but that’s fixed in iOS 18.2.
Previously:
- iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2
- iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1
- Which iOS 15 and macOS 12 Monterey Features Do You Actually Use?
- iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2
- Record App Activity
