Jan Seredynski

Automated app download and installation from AppStore is essential in mobile research but currently there is no tool that handles it on the Apple’s platform. The last working crawler - DiOS stopped working on iOS 12, when Apple removed Automator framework that was used to confirm installation prompts(Installation button on the screen below). In this article, I will show you how to replace the Automator and automate your downlaods.

There are 2 million apps in AppStore and this number keeps increasing by hundreds every day. These applications include our banking apps, email inboxes and messengers. However, how many of them really care about our security? I’ve tested 1,300 most popular applications from 13 different categories and verified if they implement essential protections such as: