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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by sefrost on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:45PM (#45067205)
WhatsApp does appear to only have access to a subset of photos on my iPhone.

The UX is a little clunky because you have to “add” a new photo which it can then access, but I prefer the privacy of it.

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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by signal11 on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:16PM (#45071368)
The subset of photos thing was a relatively clunky addition in iOS 14. iOS 17 introduced a much better picker but devs have to opt into using it for now.

Signal[1] and a bunch of other apps do use the newer iOS 17 picker.

[1] https://ibb.co/KpkfrDMZ

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