Reddit’s buzzing with complaints. One user, MoistCombination1991, said: “This Chinese game installs itself automatically” after the update. Another, scurry126, found Cooking Mama reinstalled, but, oddly, the App Store still showed the ‘Get’ button—as if it had never been downloaded at all.

Over on Apple’s support forums, users echoed the weirdness, with one saying a previously deleted app, Last War Survival, had suddenly reappeared.

“Today I feel like I'm using some cheap Chinese mobile,” ranted Redditor MildAndClassic. Not precisely the premium user experience the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple likes to boast about. Although, as we have said before, the iPhone offers the sort of security and reliability typically found in a mid-range Chinese phone.

There is no word from Job’s Mob yet and no official explanation for what appears to be a mistake—an embarrassing one, at that, given the company’s constant emphasis on security and user trust.

It does not appear to be a hack, just another iOS gremlin penned by the same programmers who can't write code to update phones for summer time. If an app pops up without your say-so, the best advice is to bin it and move on. It could be worse, Apple could be installing another U2 album,