Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

Re:Everyone knows all the apps on your phone by IshKebab on Sunday March 30, 2025 @03:21AM (#43522087)

The worst one is the UK's NHS app, which is only available as an app, despite being just a webview wrapper! I have no idea what they were thinking.

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Re:Everyone knows all the apps on your phone by cyberpunk on Sunday March 30, 2025 @04:14AM (#43522366)

Sometimes it’s a compliance thing, e.g we can only show health data if your device passes some security controls first.

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Re:Everyone knows all the apps on your phone by WesolyKubeczek on Sunday March 30, 2025 @04:18AM (#43522375)

What happens when you visit whatever URL is being wrapped?

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Re:Everyone knows all the apps on your phone by whstl on Sunday March 30, 2025 @06:10AM (#43522932)

IME those apps often have the HTML/JS embedded, so you would have to extract the contents, host them somewhere and proxy the API calls.

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Re:Everyone knows all the apps on your phone by IshKebab on Sunday March 30, 2025 @04:26AM (#43522423)

I dunno, I haven't reverse engineered it to find the URL. But I would imagine it gets confused about authentication.

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Re:Everyone knows all the apps on your phone by donalhunt on Sunday March 30, 2025 @05:17AM (#43522701)

Would put money it on it using something like '?device_verified=1'.

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Re:Everyone knows all the apps on your phone by pasc1878 on Sunday March 30, 2025 @09:49AM (#43524183)

You go to the nhs webpage and it works in the same way.

Login is better on the iOS app as you can use touch id/faceId and not userid/password also the webpage asks for cookies as it can't seem to remember the choice

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Re:Everyone knows all the apps on your phone by IshKebab on Sunday March 30, 2025 @01:18PM (#43525792)

Really? What's the URL that would allow me to see test results and book appointments?

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Re:Everyone knows all the apps on your phone by pasc1878 on Monday March 31, 2025 @05:07AM (#43532802)

Unfortunately that seems to depend on who did the test or your GP.

There seem to be sites for your GP (which mine does via a .nhs.uk domain it used to be via https://account.patientaccess.com/ which still shows appointments but does not allow booking but still allows requests for repeat prescriptions.) or hospital portal for results.

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