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You have to hope that the app ist trustworthy, the developer uses TLS, and implemented the certificate verification correctly.



Safari view controllers are completely separate - it is not possible to implement any kind of checking with it.

However Safari itself does do a reasonably good job of checking the certificate, and the view controller does show the hostname at the top.

Doesn't stop you from just faking the UI though




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