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> I get the apps want to present their own UI for the photos. If it were up to me and my 100k photo library, none of those apps would pass App Store validation
by zimpenfish 7y ago
> I get the apps want to present their own UI for the photos.
If it were up to me and my 100k photo library, none of those apps would pass App Store validation because they are inevitably a miserable experience. Even the OS photo picker isn't 100% jank-free on that number of photos but it at least works effectively unlike everyone who implements their own (takes 30s to appear, photos in random* order, albums in random* order, smart* albums missing, extraneous albums, etc.)
> I hate that apps either get permission to read all photos or none
I thought they had introduced a "get a single photo for this app without photos permission" picker (I'm pretty sure I've used it in apps!) but I can't find any indication I'm not wildly hallucinating. But that would be a great thing.
- saagarjha 7y ago> I thought they had introduced a "get a single photo for this app without photos permission" picker (I'm pretty sure I've used it in apps!) but I can't find any indication I'm not wildly hallucinating. It exists (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiimagepickercontroller https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiimagepicke...) but apps don’t want to use it.