Are we sure this guy didn’t 1. Copy/paste the link and send it to himself over iMessage from his laptop, perhaps to test it out on his phone or vice versa? 2.

Are we sure this guy didn’t 1. Copy/paste the link and send it to himself over iMessage from his laptop, perhaps to test it out on his phone or vice versa? 2. Send the QR code itself from his phone to his laptop or vice versa perhaps to test out scanning? The fact that the user agent matches that of iMessage screams that the code is somehow in a iMessage thread and iMessage is trying to refresh a preview thumbnail, detect an app clip, or make sure a url is accessible. Add to that the fact that this requests came in the morning suggesting they happened when he turned his laptop on or unlocked his phone to check messages, etc.