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I need some way to spice up my lockdown life. I've already fallen in love with the tighter privacy permissions. For example, I no longer have to give apps an a
by NamTaf 6y ago
I need some way to spice up my lockdown life.
I've already fallen in love with the tighter privacy permissions. For example, I no longer have to give apps an all-or-nothing access to my pics. This is a gamechanger because I bet a bunch of apps scrape the geodata from pics to harvest your location history, and now I only have to give them the ones I want to give them.
- vbezhenar 6y agoHow does it work with already installed applications? Will it ask again or I need to check every application and re-configure permissions as needed?
- jtbayly 6y agoIt will ask again. At least it did for me.
- simon1573 6y agoThey are handled equally. Both prompts whenever they want to access your photos.
- FridgeSeal 6y agoIt asks afresh. As a concrete example, I've been running the iOS 14 beta for the last week and a bit, Facebook Messenger previously had full access to my photos, and when using it for the first time I got a message from the OS explaining that I no longer needed to grant it carte-blanche access and whether I'd like to deny it access, pick the photos I'd specifically like to give it access to, or let it continue having full access.
- ubermonkey 6y agoWhoa. What iOS apps do this?
- philsnow 6y ago> What iOS apps do this? What iOS apps (that you've given access to your photos) can you have any confidence don't do this?
- clankyclanker 6y agoIt’s too bad. You used to be able to have some confidence, sometimes: https://www.engadget.com/2011-01-09-the-gpl-the-app-store-and-you.html https://www.engadget.com/2011-01-09-the-gpl-the-app-store-an...
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- Razengan 6y agoWhatsApp and some others keep trying to access photos, because I keep getting an prompt asking me if I want to choose more photos every so often even when I'm not trying to do anything with photos. Many apps including Discord repeatedly snoop the clipboard/pasteboard even when I don't paste anything, and wouldn't know about if iOS 14 didn't alert me. Then there's the major apps secretly accessing the camera and microphone, exposed by the green/orange indicator light in iOS 14: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/07/25/instagram-unexpectedly-accessing-camera/ https://www.macrumors.com/2020/07/25/instagram-unexpectedly-... Surprise, these are the people fighting against Apple.
- giarc 6y agoI noticed you can also just share your approximate location, rather than your exact location. Therefore, as an example, weather apps where my exact location isn't necessary won't get it.