New mystery apps in iPhone cellular data

As I said above, they are built-in Apple components. If you use the #images function of the built-in iOS keyboard while on cellular data, it will show up in Cellular Data again. Apps do not show up in that list until they actual use data.

You can test it yourself, turn off Wi-fi; then open Messages and do an image search. Once you get images in the results, you will see HashtagImages again in Cellular Data.

This is nothing to worry about, it is the built-in Apple keyboards image search.

It is called #images by Apple (or HashtagImages in Cellular Data). If you turn it off in Cellular Data, the image search in the default iOS keyboard will no longer get images. That's all.

Here's the Apple write up on #images:

Send and save GIFs on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

i have the same thing; since i pay for data by actual usage, I am in monitoring the Cellular Data screen pretty regularly.

Before iOS 11 those generic icon applications were definitely not before. "HashtagImage" and "SpringBoard" both were using cellular data on my phone.

It appears that "HashtagImages" is the iOS keyboard image search; if you disable it in Cellular Data and then try to search under "Find images" in the iOS keyboard image search button, you will get blanks. Images that may have been previously cached will still show up, but you should have a bunch of grey boxes as you scroll down the list.

definitely was a bit alarming at first, but seems safe to say this are new granular cellular data settings added by Apple in iOS 11.

Unfortunately you are a bit mistaken regarding government involvement here. Please just ask Siri and she will bring up the shortened version of the wiki which I do believe since Apple takes the privacy of its users very seriously actually IS the real wiki and not some rootkitted or trojanized version of the wiki about springboard (see screenshot attached).

Moreover, I have checked this same wiki on known safe machines on known to be secure networks, all of which were mutually exclusive of the others so I highly doubt some fake information was on the wiki page due to government interference to conceal their presence.

I’d really like to believe the claims you’ve made as it would make for a great novel or movie, but in this case we must go with the more likely of the answers and that is what Siri tells us.

I saw this on my iPhone too after the update to iOS 11, I just restored my iPhone for now and I haven’t seen it come up in the cellular data in settings, I would watch it for now and give an update if I notice anything new.

Try this. Ask Siri: "What is springboard?" Siri comes back with the app being fundamental for the home screen, bootstrapping programs at startup, and starting Windows server, etc. After installing iOS 11.0.2, springboard is the only one of the two mentioned that now shows. I hope that this helps.

SpringBoard is a monitoring system for government Cyber security Agencies and hashtagsimages are monitoring cellular phone data calls for the same agencies. So now you know, do what you will with the information. I don’t know why but it seems a bit like big brother attitude. Good luck.

In 2007 Tony Blair’s government gave America permission to store and analyse the email, mobile phone and internet records of potentially millions of innocent Britons. At the same time US security officials drew up plans to spy on British citizens unilaterally, without the knowledge of the UK government.

The revelations have emerged in leaked documents obtained by the National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The documents reveal that in 2004 the UK allowed the US to store and target any UK landline numbers of people linked to a suspected person. In 2007 this was expanded to include mobiles, faxes, email and IP addresses. The deal meant that British citizens could be spied on even if they only had a tangential link with a terrorist suspect. US intelligence uses a practice called “contact chaining” – gathering data not just on surveillance target, but that of their friends and their friends, too.

Springboard is part of the control mechanism of the digital software on phones right now, so I have switch it off and they do not make a difference with the phone software at all. So you ask yourself what is it there for, well we know the answer to that question is don’t we.

Stop this BS.

SpringBoard is alway there in all iOS version. Why are you paranoid now?

Why do you think the U.S. FBI paid about a million dollars to a 3rd party to get into an iPhone 5c?

Please stop, even Snowden says iPhone is safe.

I have physically tested other devices ie IPhones and found no evidence they had it, but on mine and other devices they have those software SB on them they are there. So make as you will there software out there that are monitoring devices right that is the true state that we are in now. Look around you right now does it feel like a nice world we are in the answer to that is No. Open you mind to other possibilities you never know what you might find.

Eugene.kiev wrote:

I have "SpringBoard" on iOS 11.0.3 (iPhone SE). Periodically, a download icon appears next to the operator's name on the home screen. Disappears only after reboot.

As has been explained by people without paranoia issues,"Springboard" is the part of iOS that controls things like the Home Screen.

The problem is not paranoia.
Problem is:
1. Battery drain caused by this service.

2. A significant cellular data usage by this service in my case.

3. The need to keep track of when the download icon reappears and restart the phone until it became completely discharged.
4. Broken / ugly i*** is placed in the wrong place.

It's hard to imagine what specifically can download this service. Maybe this is the only thing -

"iOS 10.3 will let apps change their Home screen icon at any time, no update required"

(http://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/01/26/ios-10-3-will-let-apps-change-their-home -screen-icon-at-any-time-no-update-requi…) ?

Eugene.kiev wrote:

The problem is not paranoia.
Problem is:
1. Battery drain caused by this service.

2. A significant cellular data usage by this service in my case.

3. The need to keep track of when the download icon reappears and restart the phone until it became completely discharged.
4. Broken / ugly i*** is placed in the wrong place.

I was not addressing the issue of whether or not Springboard was using battery (before it was just included, I believe in "System Services"). I was addressing the issue of what it is: part of the system software, not something planted by the government to spy on you.