Six beliefs, checked
The device layer attracts confident beliefs, most of them about what an app can take or leave behind. Six of the commonest are checked below against the sample app on the overview.
- Checked
- 6 beliefs
- False
- 4
- Partly true
- 2
- Basis
- the sample app, stated on the overview
- Not checked here
- anything about a named app
Six beliefs about the device layer
The app is a different product
It is the same account, balance and terms in a container. The differences are the store gate, the device session, the stored weight and the permission sheet - not the product.
The app can see everything on my phone
It can see what the sheet lists and only while the relevant screen is open: a chosen file, a picture taken in the app, the country the phone is in. It cannot see contacts, messages or other apps, and a broad photo permission is genuinely broad on some systems - which is why the phone’s own list, not this page, is the authority.
Removing the app closes my account
It removes 102.0 MB, a session token and a notification token. The account, the balance, an unrequested withdrawal and any running bonus are untouched.
Deleting the app deletes my data
It deletes the device’s copy: the package, the cache and two tokens. The operator’s record of the account is unaffected, and asking for a copy of it is a separate request.
The store checks that the operator is licensed
The store checks a declaration, a category, an age rating and the submitting entity. The licence is checked by the regulator, not by the store, and a listing is not evidence of one.
A push notification can sign me in or move money
A push carries text, an image and a destination screen. It cannot authenticate anything, cannot approve anything and cannot move money - a message that claims to is a phishing message wearing this channel’s clothes.
Where this leads
Every figure on this page is derived from the sample app on the overview: 250,000 store views a month, 62,500 installs, 45,000 first opens, 5,400 registrations and 1,134 first deposits.
What this desk does not do
It names no operator, it rates no app, and it recommends no store listing. The partner link beside this text is a disclosed sponsored link and the reason is stated on every page rather than in a footer.