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.
fds.apple.com
classified as first-party · 2
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=first-party, openai=unknown, gemini=first-party. A human reviewed this domain's claims before anything here published.
Anthropic Claude — first-party
fds.apple.com is a subdomain of apple.com, owned by Apple, contacted by Apple's own Wallet/Passbook system app, so it is a first-party endpoint; I do not know which specific Apple service the 'fds' host serves. Because a built-in system app of this kind has no meaningful App Store privacy label to compare against, the absence of declarations does not establish an undisclosed flow.
OpenAI — unknown
The provided data does not identify the owner or function of fds.apple.com, so its role is ambiguous. With no evidence of what data was transmitted, the empty label alone does not establish an undisclosed data flow.
Google Gemini — first-party
fds.apple.com is a first-party domain operated by Apple to support core services for iOS applications like Apple Wallet (com.apple.Passbook). First-party operational communication does not imply undisclosed third-party data tracking or sharing.
Apps measured contacting this domain
| App | Label gap | Donations | Contacts | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
com.apple.Passbook | — | 4 | 13 | 2026-07-28 → 2026-07-29 |
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