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Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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1192 points gniting | 2 comments | 29 Mar 25 21:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.4s | source
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andsoitis ◴[30 Mar 25 00:11 UTC] No.43519910[source]▶
> everyone knows all the alls on your phone

On Android phones. iPhone doesn’t have this privacy deficiency.

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wkat4242 ◴[30 Mar 25 03:14 UTC] No.43520950[source]▶
On iOS it's kinda worse in some ways. If you enroll into a company MDM they can see all your apps.

On Android if they use the work profile (which is the standard method these days) they can only see the apps inside there.

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1. jmb99 ◴[30 Mar 25 03:49 UTC] No.43521150[source]▶
I mean... isn’t that expected of an MDM? I have always assumed that any company device (i.e. any device enrolled in an MDM) is under 100% control and surveillance of that company. Being able to see my installed apps is the least of my worries.
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2. wkat4242 ◴[30 Mar 25 09:40 UTC] No.43522793[source]▶
No I (as a mobile admin) don't think it should be like that at all, at least not for BYOD devices.

Android has this really well worked out with their work profile. It's like having a company VM on your phone. Really great separation.

But on Apple we can't use a similar option which I admit does exist, but there's too many strings attached (see the discussion above).