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When handoff was first introduced, it was obvious that facebook was auto-scraping the pasteboard, because as soon as you foregrounded the facebook ios app, iOS
by 0x0 9y ago
When handoff was first introduced, it was obvious that facebook was auto-scraping the pasteboard, because as soon as you foregrounded the facebook ios app, iOS would show a "pasting from macbook handoff..." type dialog despite no user interactions performed.
If I remember correctly, the facebook iOS app would also auto-prefill a new post draft for you if it found an URL in the pasteboard?
- mcintyre1994 9y agoOh! I've seen this a few times, it must be in Messenger/WhatsApp. I don't know why Apple let them do that because it's awful UX and I just assumed Apple had screwed it up and sometimes couldn't background the copy/paste aross devices properly.
- 0x0 9y agoI think they got caught red-handed with an existing pasteboard API that suddenly gained handoff powers but at the same time started showing modal system overlays UIs when accessed? At least it came off like that.