"Danger, Will Robinson!" in title bar in iOS TestFlight app on macOS 🤔

[Fofer]

This phrase is now appearing in the title bar of the iOS TestFlight app (Version 2026 - 4.26.750) on my M1 Mac Mini and M4 MacBook Air, both running macOS 26.4.1. What's this all about?

[mjitkop]

I thought I saw this before...

Danger, Will Robinson!

[image] iperf shows 37.9 Gbps both ways $ iperf3-darwin --reverse --client 192.168.2.1 Connecting to host 192.168.2.1, port 5201 Reverse mode, remote host 192.168.2.1 is sending [ 5] local 192.168.2.8 port 49240 connected to 192.168.2.1 port 5201 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Rwnd [ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 4.34 GBytes 37.3 Gbits/sec 4.00 MBytes [ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 4.41 GBytes 37.9 Gbits/sec 3.94 MBytes [ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 4.41 GBytes 37.9 Gbits/sec …

[Fofer]

I'm wondering what the "warning" is about though?

Is this just because it's a TestFlight version? Or because it's the iPad app running (very well, I might add) on the Apple Silicon Mac? Or both? Neither?

Feels weird.

[chDVRuser]

My guess is the developers are having some fun and seeing if anyone notices.

[maddox]

I checked. This IS in the source code.

But it’s the banner that shows when downloading on the iOS app. This text is just a place holder that gets replaced.

HOW it’s ending up in the title bar is bananas.

Is there nothing Liquid Glass can create a bug with?

[mackid1993]

That is hilarious and probably a really funny Easter egg that should exist still.

I love Easter eggs in apps so anything you can throw at us to find hidden in the menus would be amazing.

Especially if we can get like a Seinfeld reference in the Android app somewhere. That would make me a very happy user. Like if your network drops and you get an error message that says clearly you're not the master of your domain or something like that.