Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Five Guys Burgers & Fries app for iOS: Deep Link Failure: Broken Universal Link for Apple Music Playlist inside the App

 iOS 18.6.2

12/24/2025

Five Guys Burgers & Fries app for iOS (version 5.17.2)

Description: 

There is a problems with the Apple Music icon/link that is displayed inside of the Five Guys iOS app.

Inside of the app there is an Apple Music icon/link. Clicking on this link exits the user out of the app and takes the user to Apple Music (which is expected). 

The user is not taken, however, to a working Apple Music playlist. The user is stranded on a page in Apple Music that looks like this:


User is left stranded here in Apple Music. This is a blank Apple Music playlist located at: https://music.apple.com/us/curator/five-guys/1542822234


I managed to copy the link from the Five Guys Android app (why am Android app would link to an Apple Music playlist is another issue):

https://music.apple.com/us/curator/five-guys/1542822234

Archived: https://archive.is/Q22sz


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Download the Five Guys Burgers & Fries app for iOS (version 5.17.2)

2. Enter into the app in Guest Mode

3. Select the slider (3 horizontal line) option in the upper left hand corner of the screen 

4. From the "WELCOME!" page select the Apple Music icon 

Result: select the Apple Music icon inside of the Five Guys Burgers & Fries iOS app does not take the user to a working Apple Music playlist. 

Expected: if there is an Apple Music icon displayed inside of the Five Guys Burgers & Fries iOS app, then it should link to a working page/playlist inside of Apple Music 


Select the option in the upper left hand corner of the screen...



Select the Apple Music icon as indicated in this screenshot.

Please Note: Interestingly enough, the Five Guys website has an icon that leads to a working Spotify playlist. 





Sunday, December 21, 2025

Wild Fork app for iOS: the "Developer's Privacy Policy" and "Privacy Policy" links on the App Store detail page lead to a 404 error page

 iOS 18.6.2

Wild Fork app for iOS (version 4.0.50 (680))

12/21/2025

Description:

The "Developer's Privacy Policy" and "Privacy Policy" links on the detail page for an app called "Wild Fork" lead to a 404 page. 

Instead of leading to a valid and readable privacy policy (as is mandated by Apple) these links are leading to this 404 page: https://wildforkfoods.com/404-not-found/

Archived here: https://archive.is/7hTo2

This is what the end user will see instead of a valid privacy policy. 


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Head to the detail page in the Apple App Store for an app called Wild Fork

2. Scroll down and select either "Privacy Policy" or "Developer's Privacy Policy"

Result: The "Privacy Policy" and "Developer's Privacy Policy" links on the Apple App Store detail page for an app called "Wild Fork" lead to a 404 error page instead of a readable, valid, privacy policy 

Expected: The "Privacy Policy" and "Developer's Privacy Policy" links on the Apple App Store detail page for the "Wild Fork" app should always lead to valid and readable privacy policies 


This is a screenshot of Wild Fork's detail page in the Apple App Store (December 2025)...

Here's the "developer's privacy policy" link...

Here's the page the user is taken to. 








Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Qwant Private Search app for iOS: the "Developer's Privacy Policy" and "Privacy Policy" links in App Store detail page lead to a "Oops 404 lunar page"

 iOS 18.6.2

Qwant Private Search app for iOS (version 6.9.0)

12/17/2025

Description:

On the Apple App Store detail page for the Qwant Private Search app, the "Developer's Privacy Policy" and "Privacy Policy" links lead to a 404 page. 


Currently, the "Privacy Policy" and "Developer's Privacy Policy" links lead to a 404 page. This is the URL: https://www.qwant.com/privacy

Regulations regarding consumer access to valid privacy policies are mandated by Apple


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Head to the Qwant Private Search detail page in the Apple App Store 

2. Select either  the "Developer's Privacy Policy" or "Privacy Policy" links 

3. Note that the user is taken to a 404 page

Result: the "Developer's Privacy Policy" and "Privacy Policy" links associated with the Apple Apple Store detail page for the Qwant Privacy Search app lead to 404 pages

Expected: the "Developer's Privacy Policy" and "Privacy Policy" links for the Qwant Privacy Search app should link to a readable privacy policy  


Head to the the Qwant Private Search detail page in the app store...


Click on the "Developer's Privacy Policy" link...


User ends up on a 404 page at: https://www.qwant.com/privacy