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The topic was last discussed in February: Some apps allowed themselves to copy the user’s clipboard.
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At the end of February, the two researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk pointed out a security problem on their blog
: Under iOS (as with Android), the app can access the clipboard and take over the content from there without user permission. With some apps, this access is legitimized by its functions: Safari under iOS can differentiate that the user is currently copying a URL into the address bar and, in addition to “Paste”, also offer “Paste and open”, which means that the user has to search, additional clicks and ultimately saves time. Other apps monitor the clipboard on the device without having any reason for use. Above all, TikTok, the social video network from China, can find it difficult to explain. Across from ”
The Telegraph
“The app spokesmen promised in March to change this app behavior with the next app update. After Apple released iOS 14 as a developer beta for registered developers
a user on Twitter
the same behavior of the app, now documented with iOS 14.
According to ”
Arstechnica
“Almost 60 apps from the top charts in the App Store operate access to the clipboard on iOS without having any understandable reasons. These include, for example, popular apps like Battery Weather, Sky Ticket, Viber, Dazn, PUBG Mobile, Bejeweled, ntv messages, star messages and more, if you consider that with the handoff on the newer devices, the universal clipboard is still activated and the copied data from the Mac is accessible on the clipboard under iOS, such apps can use significantly more data access than you are aware of as a user, but access is only allowed if the app is in the foreground, that is, is used actively.
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