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Apple disables screenshots when playing Top Gun Maverick
- tarakat 4y agoWith DRM, you have to pay extra for what used to be your rights. There are people right now thinking of ways to further restrict what we may do, so they can sell permission to do it back to us.
- Someone 4y agoIs it Apple doing this? The tweet explicitly ‘thanks’ lots of accounts, but doesn’t mention them. Also, if it’s DRM and Apple supports that, are they unique in that?
- breck 4y agoSorry the original tweet didn't call out Apple. Tweet 2/3 in the thread does (https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1576794330580148225 https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1576794330580148225). It didn't click for me until a little later that Apple went out of its way to explicitly add an API to disable some basic functionality in macOS. The end result is the user expects one thing to happen (a screenshot) and instead get a black screen. A very unethical decision, IMO.
- Someone 4y agoThat tweet doesn’t mention what API that is, and Google doesn’t give it to me. The best I can find (via https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18680028/prevent-screen-capture-in-an-ios-app https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18680028/prevent-screen-...) is https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uitextinputtraits/1624427-issecuretextentry https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uitextinputt...: “A Boolean value that indicates whether a text object disables copying, and in some cases, prevents recording/broadcasting and also hides the text“ ⇒ People seem to creatively use this to hide views shown behind text views from screenshots. I wonder what those “in some cases” are, though.