{"id":46812,"date":"2025-02-21T16:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46812"},"modified":"2025-02-21T16:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:50:15","slug":"icons-in-passwords-app-and-app-privacy-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/21\/icons-in-passwords-app-and-app-privacy-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Icons in Passwords.app and App Privacy Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@mysk\/113874178895988558\">Mysk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@mysk\/113874178895988558\"><p>The Passwords app now categorizes the network requests to download the icons as &ldquo;websites visited in app&rdquo; and this way the number of requests sent isn&rsquo;t included in the main count in the #privacy report.<\/p><p>This new categorization makes the requests less visible to privacy-conscious as the app won&rsquo;t show spikes of 130+ requests as we demonstrated before in iOS 18 and iOS 18.2.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>iOS still doesn&rsquo;t provide an option to disable downloading the icons, which is the best way to tackle this issue.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1vr2e6YeNuc\">using unencrypted HTTP<\/a>, but that&rsquo;s fixed in iOS 18.2.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/13\/ios-18-2-and-ipados-18-2\/\">iOS 18.2 and iPadOS 18.2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/28\/ios-18-1-and-ipados-18-1\/\">iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/09\/which-ios-15-and-macos-12-monterey-features-do-you-actually-use\/\">Which iOS 15 and macOS 12 Monterey Features Do You Actually Use?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/13\/ios-15-2-and-ipados-15-2\/\">iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/20\/record-app-activity\/\">Record App Activity<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mysk: The Passwords app now categorizes the network requests to download the icons as &ldquo;websites visited in app&rdquo; and this way the number of requests sent isn&rsquo;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&rsquo;t show spikes of 130+ requests as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-02-21T21:50:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"3f6b40d3-2187-4eb8-b503-07cdb462ea11","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-02-21T21:50:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AP2tA0yGHTri1AwfNtGLqEQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2165,545,31,2586,355,48],"class_list":["post-46812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-password-manager","tag-icons","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-privacy","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46813,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46812\/revisions\/46813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}