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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by hombre_fatal on Friday August 29, 2025 @04:07PM (#45068804)
Hmm, I can confirm that Signal does work the way you describe.

It looks like there is a separate API for "Private Access to Photos" that is less common than the UX I describe (WhatsApp, Reddit, Twitter, Discord).

Maybe one thing we can agree on is that if apps have to opt-in to the API that's better for users, then we can also blame Apple.

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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by d1sxeyes on Saturday August 30, 2025 @01:12AM (#45072060)
Seems you can just `get` the result?

Not sure what I’m missing that means so many apps don’t do this, vastly better UX.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/blob/0151cfdee27cb03...

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Re:Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll by Zanfa on Saturday August 30, 2025 @03:49AM (#45072741)
You’re right! They’re all using the same API, there’s no other better “opt-in” API. Some developers just want to make the UX worse for their own nefarious purposes. Nothing to do with Apple.
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