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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by ks2048 on Friday August 29, 2025 @02:58PM (#45068012)
If you set the access to “Limited Access”, then that’s what the App has. It’s not a decision for WhatsApp to make - it’s in iOS.
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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by signal11 on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:06PM (#45071310)
“Limited access” is an older iOS feature from 2020, and different from the “private access” photo picker introduced with iOS 17[1].

[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10053/?time...

Limited access isn’t great UX because it’s not reasonable for users to have to manage a list of photos for every app. The new one is much better, but unfortunately app devs have to opt into it for now.

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