One of the new features of iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia is iPhone Mirroring – but using this with a personal iPhone on a work Mac currently creates a privacy risk for employees, and a legal risk for businesses.
The problem, as cybersecurity company Sevco discovered, is that apps on the iPhone get treated as Mac apps, and that means their presence is included in corporate IT audits …
Sevco found that when iPhone Mirroring is use, any iPhone app you run creates an entry in the Mac library here:
/Users/<user>/Library/Daemon Containers/<uuid>/Data/Library/Caches/<app_name>
That is, the Mac treats them as if they were Mac apps.
This means that when companies run automated network audits, to check that all the apps on their Macs are properly authorized and licensed, the iPhone apps will be identified.
For iPhone users, that creates a potential privacy risk, because your employer will be able to see your iPhone apps. To be clear, they can’tsee …
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