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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by kccqzy on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:57AM (#45064981)
The copy/paste feature is underused on iOS. These days if an app needs access to a photo, I try to determine whether the app uses the system photo picker (which doesn't need the app to have photos permission). If it doesn't I simply use the Photos app to copy a photo and then paste afterwards. A benefit is that you can strip location right from the Photos app. With third party apps like Metapho which can be invoked from the share sheet, you can even strip all metadata before copying.

Some apps like WeChat somehow insist on building on their photo picker and they get the copy/paste treatment.

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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by const_cast on Friday August 29, 2025 @11:20AM (#45065299)
Apple should really had a "strip metadata" option directly in the photos picker widget. It would work well with their privacy marketing.
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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by ghostpepper on Friday August 29, 2025 @12:18PM (#45066035)
FWIW I have a free app installed called iVerify that mostly just reminds me when a new iOS is released but recently I noticed they added a "Strip metadata from photo" feature to the sharing tray, so you can pipe a photo through it and then copy to another app.
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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by 47thpresident on Friday August 29, 2025 @05:40PM (#45069714)
Is this only on iVerify EDR? I can’t seem to find it on the up-to-date basic version.
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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by lights0123 on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:09PM (#45066717)
It does, and location and captions are stripped by default using the system picker. It's the switches icon in the bottom left.
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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by kccqzy on Friday August 29, 2025 @02:03PM (#45067422)
Doesn't strip all metadata, such as make/model, ISO, aperture etc.
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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by danielheath on Friday August 29, 2025 @08:06PM (#45070784)
No, but "photo taken on one of the most common phone models in existence" is not _especially_ identifying.
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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by kccqzy on Sunday August 31, 2025 @01:45AM (#45080654)
I don't want people to know the precise date time of taking the photo. I don't want people to know whether I'm frugal and staying on iPhone 12 or I splurged and upgraded to iPhone 16 Pro. I don't want people to know the version of iOS I was running. I don't want people to know the name of the software that I used to adjust the curves and white balance.
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