> Every OS that I am aware of gives the foreground app unfettered access to the clipboard. The point is not whether or not other OSes do this. The point is: 1

> Every OS that I am aware of gives the foreground app unfettered access to the clipboard. The point is not whether or not other OSes do this. The point is: 1. At least some iPhone users would be surprised that Apple allows this on iOS given the emphasis Apple places on privacy. 2. Apple has been aware that apps are abusing this privilege for some time -- at least as long as it took them to develop the new alert to apps abusing the privilege, maybe longer. 3. Apple has seemingly continued to approve apps which are spying on users. 4. I don't believe Apple can make any promises that bad actors have not been able to clandestinely transmit the contents of users' clipboards to their own servers. Many users, including me, outsource their infosec to Apple because they champion privacy, end-to-end encryption, and things like notifications for apps which are monitoring location. But there is no good reason for an app like TikTok or LinkedIn to be constantly making a copy of the contents of your clipboard, and Apple is aware that they have been doing it. I don't dispute that unfettered access to the clipboard is an attractive feature on many devices (not to mention hard to police on macOS given the prevalence of non-App Store apps), but on iOS expectations and messaging are very significantly different. The second paragraph on Apple's app store review webpage: > We take responsibility for ensuring that apps are held to a high standard for privacy, security, and content because nothing is more important than maintaining the trust of our users. Do you consider their actions here -- knowingly approving apps to the store which could, without permission, transmit your clipboard contents anywhere they want -- to be in keeping with that promise?