Apple promoting promiscuous user behaviour

carel229 wrote:

Recently when I performed an app search on my mom’s iphone looking for the Vodacom app, the search brought up the app “Grindr” under “recent searches” causing relationship problems for me and my partner. Nobody has downloaded the app nor has it been searched for on my mom’s phone. Does Apple promote promiscuous behaviour from users to allow this to happen? The “hidden apps” feature introduced earlier this year on iOS has had the same effect. This is on iOS 26.1.

Apple did not spontaneously add it to your phone. Someone downloaded the app. There is tell if someone searched the App Store for a particular app.

The Hidden Apps feature does nothing, it's just an empy folder unless someone hides an app. Again, Apple doesn't spontaneously hide apps for some nefarious purpose.

Why are you messing with your mother's phone? It would seem to me that if she wants to use hookup apps, that's no one else's business. You and your partner should stick to your own phones.

Fixes include clearing App Store cache and disabling suggestions.