Based on that I'd guess either a meditation app company has figured out how to circumvent a lot of controls put in place by Apple, or it's a bug on Apple's side

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_-x-_ 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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?

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donkey_brains 11 hours ago | parent [-]

But why this one specific app and no others?

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wincy an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe it’s like that time Apple thought everyone wanted that awful free U2 album that they automatically added to everyone’s iTunes library. (I know this isn’t actually the case but it’s the funniest explanation)

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layer8 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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_-x-_ 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	dd8601fn 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Makes me think something got jacked up adding/removing things from promotional bundles with other apps. It shouldn’t do that, obviously, but headspace does seem like it’s one that bundles “free” with a bunch of health insurance, education, etc. From a debugging perspective, without having Apples information, I kinda want to know if all affected users have some related health or education apps.

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altairprime 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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!).

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breppp 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

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joenot443 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My guess is it's a bug on the App Store side which will actually hurt Headspace in the long run. If this was a casino app I'd feel a bit differently, but I'd be shocked if someone at Headspace did this deliberately.

I'm trying to imagine the headspace of a user who deletes an app, only to see it pop back the next morning. Probably not a very relaxing experience :)

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a34729t 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or it is a mandated backdoor, and someone internally objected, and made it easier to exploit than it should be, or leaked how to exploit it?

	▲	8cvor6j844qw_d6 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> mandated backdoor Probably one from the repository of backdoors "accidentally" introduced or "never" discovered. The mechanism's there, just needs to be woven with other exploits.
	▲	jdiff 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Makes no sense for headspace to be using it if that were the case.

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aaron695 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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