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Apple should add a status bar icon that appears whenever your camera is on and in use. Or even color the status bar similarly to how they do for GPS, tethering
by jtokoph 7y ago
Apple should add a status bar icon that appears whenever your camera is on and in use. Or even color the status bar similarly to how they do for GPS, tethering and calls being active.
- koenigdavidmj 7y agoThis does happen when the microphone is being used while you’re on AirPlay. My wife was scrolling Instagram as I drove, and we noticed it was using the mic.
- globuous 7y agoWhaat ? Is this for real ? How do we combat this ? Do i need to go snowden on my phone, open it up, disconnect everything and use a jack based mic ? I really dont care about the frontal camera, idt i’ve ever used it tbh.
- wil421 7y agoI removed Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp from my phone completely. On the rare a occasion I need Facebook I just login with Safari. Not sure how Instagram is on Safari because I don’t get caught up in it. At my newish job I don’t communicate with anyone overseas but I can see why people would need to use WhatsApp. Next up, Google Maps and Gmail. I plan to use Fastmail but I need a domain without my name in it for non-professional use.
- reacharavindh 7y agoI do the same. No Facebook on phone except logging in with iOS safari in private mode very rarely. However, WhatsApp is the killer app that I’m being peer pressured into keeping on the phone because of social effect. There is just no alternative to it in sight :-( I wish. Gmail -> FastMail. I’d heartily recommend as a very happy customer. Google maps is still another cancer I don’t know how to get rid of.
- hellofunk 7y agoAre you concerned at all about fastmail being located in Australia considering the new anti-privacy laws they are required to comply with?
- farisjarrah 7y agoNot a fastmail customer, but someone who is looking for other paid email providers, the whole privacy thing is concerning, but more concerning to me is getting Google banned and losing access to much of my online life.
- reacharavindh 7y agoYes, I have been concerned with the stupid law in Australia. To be honest, email is not encrypted, and I use it with its limitations in mind. What worries me the most is not a government reading into my emails.. it is advertisement companies and a mighty powerful Google that constantly profiles me with whatever data it can get on me. If FastMail could keep my data away from Google and other advertisement companies, I’m all good. Although I wish Australia doesn’t do something as stupid as this law.
- TurkishPoptart 7y agoI love Telegram. And Signal.
- skyyler 7y agoTelegram is great for group chats and I actually see it being a potential replacement for twitter in some specialized domains thanks to the Channels feature. Signal is great for when you want to talk about things that governments have decided shouldn't be talked about.
- socceroos 7y agoI think Signal is better for group chats and is a potential replacement. Briar is better suited, in my opinion, for talking about things that governments have decided shouldn't be talked about.
- TurkishPoptart 7y agoIt's nearly impossible to us Instagram now without the app. You can't watch videos, and you can probably view one image before getting goaded into getting the app IME.
- skyyler 7y agoAs someone that doesn't use Insta, can you explain the appeal? It reminds me a lot of what television was like in Idiocracy.
- TurkishPoptart 7y agoI don't use it, but I think the appeal is scrolling through images to satisfy our lizard brain's thirst for novel stimulation. If they made it possible to _browse_ without an account, I might spend time on it. But Facebook is allergic to anything remotely anonymous.
- tinus_hn 7y agoWell, that or you can just revoke microphone permission from the app.
- hassancf 7y ago“Go Snowden on my phone”... nice
- vectorEQ 7y agojust avoid facebook if u don't like it. much easier than molesting your poor phone to try and use services which don't agree with you...
- toddmorey 7y agoIsn’t that the idea with the hardware “camera is on” light on laptops? That it shouldn’t be possible to override with software? Maybe phones should have something similar.
- krausefx 7y agoIt doesn't solve all the problems, the status bar can be hidden or faked unfortunately https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-watchuser-access-both-iphone-cameras-any-time-your-app-is-running https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-watchuser-access-both-...
- alkonaut 7y agoI'm quite fine with only malicious apps spying on me to begin with. I'm pretty sure Facebook or other large players wouldn't use that kind of trick. Obviously that might not be enough for everyone, but it's by far the best solution that works with existing hardware. Tomorrows phones might have indicator LEDs or hardware switches, but my current one doesn't.
- saagarjha 7y agoIt’d be interesting to see if Apple added system UI on top of apps that tried to access the camera, displayed by SpringBoard so apps couldn’t draw over it.
- dawg- 7y agoMy Samsung S9 sends a push notification when apps are using the camera
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- devmunchies 7y agoApple should add a slider to the phone so i can physically cover the camera when not using it. something like this: https://www.amazon.com/C-Slide-Sliding-Computers-Chromebooks-Consoles/dp/B00AZ639VG https://www.amazon.com/C-Slide-Sliding-Computers-Chromebooks... Hell, even integrating it into the phone and opening the camera app when i open the rear slider would be a killer feature.
- jmkni 7y agoI honestly though that was already a thing!