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How does that apply to thise case though? Asking for permissions on iOS is the norm and many apps include a message indicating what and why they are about to request something non-obvious before sending the request and triggering the popup.

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This particular entitlement does not trigger any pop up and can’t be disabled by the user except by uninstalling the app.

Yes, I get that...I just meant his whole spiel about "not asking for permission being the norm". In the context of iOS permissions not asking is the exception.

More trying to enlighten the not yet enlightened to be on the look out for said behavior if they weren't already looking out for it. Also, with things like iOS entitlements, their entire purpose is to act as a permissions based contract. Where what I'm talking about comes into play is dropping in functionality that can be called if you know about it, but not making any attempts to advertise that you can.

Maybe not relevant in this particular case, but again, was more intended in the sense of a BOLO.

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