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Anecdotal but my daughter had tiktok before the ios update that showed when apps were listening and right after the update we caught tiktok listening when she w

Anecdotal but my daughter had tiktok before the ios update that showed when apps were listening and right after the update we caught tiktok listening when she wasn’t recording any videos. I almost couldn’t believe how brazen they were considering the ios change was well documented and reported on.

replwoacause 4y ago
Yeah, that reminds me of the reporting I saw back when it was snooping on clipboard data: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=tiktok+clipboard+snooping&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=tiktok+...
g8oz 4y ago
How did you catch it listening?
- alephxyz 4y ago
  iOS will display an orange/green indicator in the status bar that you can press on to see which apps are currently using your microphone/camera.
  - frozencell 4y ago
    Why not disabling the app's use of microphone, camera and files in the settings?
    - IshKebab 4y ago
      They weren't asking for a solution.
    - HWR_14 4y ago
      Because his daughter was recording videos (probably with audio) at other points in time. It's like if Zoom was found to be always recording audio.