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Did you intentionally disable Settings > Privacy > Analytics & Improvements > Share iPhone Analytics ?

From <https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-...>

"At around the same time the file com.apple.CrashReporter.plist file was written in /private/var/root/Library/Preferences/, likely to disable reporting of crash logs back to Apple."

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This is a very good question and one to check - merely having crash logs disabled (at least for an HN audience) isn't a high information signal.

I've got crash logs and as much analytics and telemetry disabled in a custom provisioning profile just to save having to navigate through menus to turn everything off...

Would need to test this on one of those devices to see if there's a false positive as a result though. But it's possible this is a false alarm if it's just checking for existence of this file. Has anyone checked through the logic the tester uses?

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