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Android maps each app to it’s own UID. I was just curious if the iPhone does something similar.
To avoid confusion with another post, I’m referring to UNIX User ID here.
One more note on this. The way to check is, is to open up a terminal app and get a shell on the phone ( I’m assuming iPhone has one). Once you have the shell run the “ps” command. I just want to know if the user ids of the apps are different.
iOS’s sandboxing doesn’t work the same way Android’s does. Apps all run as the user “mobile”. If you’re interested in how the sandboxing actually works, check out the Mac OS X documentation for the (optional) sandbox available to Mac apps—I’m pretty sure they’re the same thing.