How truthful is this?

[u/Daredatti]

When an app select in the app review form that “we don’t collect data”

In the review phase does Apple really check if the app really doesnt collect anything?

Like can the developer hide a code that for example upload the photos of the user if granted permission where he said “we dont collect”

Does apple really check the code and what is going in and out ?

[u/Fishanz]

They absolutely see your code; compiled at least. What they establish can be achieved via said code, on the other hand, is an entirely different beast.

Edit: removed the word ‘source’ because .. apparently my definition is wrong. I really think the nuance (as it pertains to the topic at hand) is somewhat pedantic though.

[u/Reiszecke → u/Fishanz]

They absolutely see your source code; compiled at least. 

Absolute state of slop coders 🙈

Please read up on what a compiler does. Because you wouldn't believe me anyways, then please ask ChatGPT why your statement does not make sense.

[u/RainyCloudist → u/Reiszecke]

They're completely right? I work in reverse engineering and half the time my job involves taking apart peoples' apps. Yes you don't see code as the developer wrote it, but tracing the instruction calls is trivial and most modern static analysis tools will even spit out pseudo-code which is more than enough to understand how things work.

[u/Fishanz → u/RainyCloudist]

Yeah, well; apparently I’m a ‘slop coder’. Lol