Tell HN report that installing Cursor on iOS changes device privacy settings

Category: Pulse
Status: discussion
Sources: discussion
Summary: A Tell HN post (190 points) reports that installing the Cursor iOS app irreversibly alters the device's privacy settings. It is a single unverified user account with no primary source or vendor confirmation, and the specific settings changed are not independently established.
Comments: Commenters reported a similar mandatory account-name onboarding in the Claude iOS app that the CLI and web clients do not require, and argued that paying customers should still get a privacy policy that favors the user; the thread links back to the SpaceX-Anysphere acquisition coverage tracked in this digest.
Why it matters: It is another developer-tool-trust data point alongside the Claude Code request-marking thread, reflecting practitioner unease about what widely used coding clients do on install, though the underlying claim is unverified.