A week later, the real story surfaced. An indie developer with a reputable GitHub posted a detailed teardown of 15021, proving the HDR fix was genuine and explaining how an automated build system had accidentally bundled a telemetry helper used during testing. The helper pinged home only when verbose logging was enabled, and only to a server that the community quickly vetted. The developer apologized, signed a clean release, and the App Store version shipped the fix two days after that.