Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll
by const_cast on Friday August 29, 2025 @11:20AM
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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
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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.
Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll
by 47thpresident on Friday August 29, 2025 @05:40PM
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Is this only on iVerify EDR? I can’t seem to find it on the up-to-date basic version.
Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll
by lights0123 on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:09PM
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It does, and location and captions are stripped by default using the system picker. It's the switches icon in the bottom left.
Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll
by kccqzy on Friday August 29, 2025 @02:03PM
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Doesn't strip all metadata, such as make/model, ISO, aperture etc.
Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll
by danielheath on Friday August 29, 2025 @08:06PM
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No, but "photo taken on one of the most common phone models in existence" is not _especially_ identifying.
Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll
by kccqzy on Sunday August 31, 2025 @01:45AM
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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.