The deadline nobody circled: in September, your app goes on a 24-hour clock.
From this September, the moment a flaw in your app is exploited, you have 24 hours to report it. It applies to apps already shipped, and dodging the "medical device" label does not get you out.
In Europe, a breach is now the executive's problem, with their name on it.
In Europe, a security failure can now cost an executive the right to run a company, by name. The rule is called NIS2, and it turns your developer's shortcut into a question about you.
Health data is the expensive kind to lose. The worst part is the leak you can’t measure.
The same bug costs more in a health app, and “we don’t know who was affected” is the answer that turns an incident into a headline.
Four things I find inside medical apps, and how to tell the dangerous from the harmless
Not everything that looks alarming is dangerous. The difference is the whole job.
Your medical app passed every audit. Nobody looked inside it.
A compliance certificate says nothing about what your app gives away.
Renovating old iOS projects
This is not a clean-architecture post and not a SwiftUI tutorial. It’s a practical write-up of how I actually refactor and ship updates on old iOS projects that nobody wants to touch anymore. Take what’s useful, ignore the rest. Some parts are heavily opinionated. I prefer TRAE.ai but it is compatible with any other AI IDE.
Trae AI rules them all
I do iOS and macOS engineering for a living — 16 years now, using AI for the last 3. Here’s my honest opinion without any affiliation.
Vibe coding a macOS application
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Protecting user profile in iOS app against hackers
Possible hacker scenario:
Bad actor can do social engineering on a person to steal access. A hacker can impersonate himself (act on behalf of that person) to gain trust from users of the app and compromise them or redirect them to a malicious website, app or payment wall.
Protecting database in iOS app against hackers
Many app owners and developers don’t realise that their apps may be full of threats. Those vulnerabilities are waiting for an average hacker right in the AppStore. An average hacker doesn’t even need access to the source code to find and exploit bad mistakes....
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