Using only Apple’s official diagnostic tools (Console.app) on a clean, non-jailbroken iPhone 14 Pro Max, the following issues were observed:

System daemons silently initiate Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) scans without app activity or user interaction.

GPS location harvesting occurs with no prompts, indicators, or active apps.

Internal frameworks bypass Apple’s Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) protections using undocumented flags.

Bluetooth trust metadata (e.g., IRKs, pairing history) is exposed even when devices are disconnected.

Cryptographic failures are silently ignored during trust operations.

These behaviors suggest an integrated telemetry pipeline that operates beneath iOS’s user-facing privacy model. The full report includes logs, technical breakdowns, and reproduction steps.

Is this fixed in iOS 18.6?

From what I've seen lately, you're the only person who thinks it is surprising that an iphone sometimes turns on the Bluetooth radio.

Not the first company to do this, if it's intentional it just follows the industry resetting user preferences to the favourable "defaults"

well.. apple needs to power their 'find my device' network somehow.. no?

Really thinking about switching to Graphene as "Privacy, thats not iPhone" is now a thing.

Someday hoping some billionaire decides to start a "third" operating system that is simple enough to be maintained by an OSS foundation.

Looks like garbage "vulnerabilities" generated by ChatGPT from a random sample of log messages. None of it looks even remotely substantiated and I have no idea how this made it to the front page so quickly.

At this point it doesnt really matter if its Apple, microsoft or google, etc..

These big tech co’s will harvest whatever is possible since user data equals hard cash and they will try and do it until they get found out, but even then it could take years until they actually get stopped or fined.

Its still the wild west out there since governments are so extremeley slow to react and they know that.

Also, Apples posturing as being the “privacy leader” doesnt mean anything anymore at this point.

What is this report supposed to show? System level Daemons have low level access or iPhone, unlocked and having trusted the hardware I assume, can be made to reveal data? This reads like someone asked AI about debugging iPhone using their laptop, dug into some system daemons and wrote up a report acting like sky is falling when it's expected behavior. UID 0 can bypass file permissions, alert kernel developers!

Real question is, can other iOS applications trigger this data leaking behavior or can untrusted MacOS devices do this as well?

We humans are the jailbroken ones.

There's no clear evidence and no write-up. This comes across as crying wolf.