Re:Did Apple Just Kill Social Apps?
by spike021 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @12:53AM
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Sounds like how photo sharing permissions have worked since... iOS 16 or 17? You can choose as small a subset of photos for an app to have access to as you want, and then just add as you like, rather than sharing your entire photo library. Pretty handy.
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Re:Did Apple Just Kill Social Apps?
by votepaunchy on Thursday October 03, 2024 @07:20AM
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> No bonus points for guessing what type of apps do the latter.
Camera apps?
In other new “Halide rejected from the App Store because it doesn’t explain why the camera takes photos”.
https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/24/halide-rejected-from-the-app-...
I think these permissions should be handled in a way where the app simply cannot know whether you gave limited or full access. The app should see a pool of items (contacts / photos / health data / whatever) without the information whether that's full access or not.
If I understand correctly, apps are only given that info to be able to add a custom `Adjust Selection…` button in a convenient place in the app. But this could be handled on a system level instead, where a small unobtrusive pop-up appears, on top of the app without its knowledge, where the user can adjust permissions (kind of like the `Pasted from…` toast when using the clipboard).
It's a bit uglier, but much safer and avoids digging into Settings like you mention. And crummy apps cannot bully you for giving partial access.