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captive.apple.com

classified as unknown · 2

This page aggregates measured, corroborated evidence: donors' iPhones recorded apps contacting this domain, every claim below was reported by separate accepted donations and published under a human verdict (later rows for an approved app inherit its verdict). A contact is a measurement, not an accusation — it does not show what data was sent.

What our research panel found AI-drafted · human-reviewed

We ask several independent AI models the same question and publish their answers separately — cross-vendor agreement is evidence against fabrication, and disagreement is worth seeing. 3 of 3 models answered, overall confidence medium — classification split: anthropic=unknown, openai=unknown, gemini=cdn. A human reviewed this domain's claims before anything here published.

Anthropic Claude — unknown

captive.apple.com is an Apple-operated endpoint widely used for network reachability / captive-portal detection rather than for data collection, so it does not map cleanly onto tracker, analytics, advertising, CDN, or app-first-party categories. Such a request carries no meaningful user data beyond the connection itself, so nothing here implies a flow outside the app's declared label.

OpenAI — unknown

captive.apple.com is commonly associated with captive-network connectivity checks, but no ownership or request-purpose evidence is provided here. The contact alone does not establish a data flow absent from the app's declared label.

Google Gemini — cdn

captive.apple.com is operated by Apple to perform captive portal detection and verify network connectivity. This standard OS-level infrastructure request does not represent an undisclosed privacy violation or tracking flow.

Apps measured contacting this domain

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