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Will the app store listing for my Sudoku game warn me (as to its credit my iPhone started doing, before I deleted the app in horror) that it pastes from the cli

• CodesInChaos 6y ago
  From what I remember, the old clipboard API didn't distinguish between an app inspecting the clipboard content (dangerous) and merely checking if the clipboard contains data and what its type is (harmless).
  • shuckles 6y ago
    Accessing pasteboard metadata doesn’t trigger the pill, though.
    • CodesInChaos 6y ago
      The way I understood it, many only apps triggered it because either the old API didn't offer a separate meta data access function, or they didn't know that they should use it.
      • shuckles 6y ago
        The types API has been available since iOS 3.0 which, IIRC, was when pasteboard was added to the system. Certainly there are apps which accessed the contents of pasteboard more than they should have because they weren't being punished for it.
• Razengan 6y ago
  A bunch of major apps like Discord do/did that too. WhatsApp also occasionally tries/tried to access photos for no reason, which I caught thanks to iOS 14's "Would you like to give this app access to more photos?" prompt. Then there's Instagram: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/07/25/instagram-unexpectedly-accessing-camera/ https://www.macrumors.com/2020/07/25/instagram-unexpectedly-... It was iOS that outed them and not Android. This is why I prefer Apple to the other major corps; they're still the lesser evil among the sea of villainy out there.