I agree, but want to give u/Zeitreise partial credit. They could have been trying to see if apple was going to pull a parlor on them. Q is toxic to the left.
I’m not sure what you mean by metadata, metadata is inherently always public. This is stuff like the app icon and AppStore screenshots.
If you’re asking about the actual internal code of the app, it all gets obfuscated and compiled into a .ipa file. No one at Apple can read it, even if they did somehow decompile it, it wouldn’t matter because knowing the source code to something doesn’t inherently give you access to break it’s encryption. Signal for example is fully open source. That’s the beauty of asymmetric encryption is that it can be done all in the open.
Apple wouldn’t know. Apple doesn’t have any more info to stuff like that than anyone. The app has its own private servers and everything’s encrypted.
I agree, but want to give u/Zeitreise partial credit. They could have been trying to see if apple was going to pull a parlor on them. Q is toxic to the left.
For context I develop apps for Apple.
I’m not sure what you mean by metadata, metadata is inherently always public. This is stuff like the app icon and AppStore screenshots.
If you’re asking about the actual internal code of the app, it all gets obfuscated and compiled into a .ipa file. No one at Apple can read it, even if they did somehow decompile it, it wouldn’t matter because knowing the source code to something doesn’t inherently give you access to break it’s encryption. Signal for example is fully open source. That’s the beauty of asymmetric encryption is that it can be done all in the open.
They can see and test the app.