iOS 14 reveals the full list of apps that spy on your phone
The new Privacy feature revealed in the system iOS 14 for a number of common applications that have raised concerns about the privacy of the portfolio, note users on Twitter and YouTube that iOS 14 will tell you when an open application up to your portfolio, and show that a surprising number of applications read clipboard each time it is opened The application is in it .
We have compiled a list of apps that can access the clipboard when opened, the most prominent of these is the Tik Tok app, which was observed by the Twitter user ( Jeremy Burge ), and it reads the clipboard after doing a few keystrokes inside the app.
Okay so TikTok is grabbing the contents of my clipboard every 1-3 keystrokes. iOS 14 is snitching on it with the new paste notification pic.twitter.com/OSXP43t5SZ
— Jeremy Burge (@jeremyburge) June 24, 2020
The researchers also found that the following applications were reading clipboard data for users each time the application was opened without a clear reason to do so:
News applications:
- ABC News
- Al Jazeera English
- CBC News
- CBS News:H443NM7F8H.CBSNews
- CNBC
- Fox News
- News Break
- New York Times
- NPR
- ntv news
- Reuters
- Reuters Russia Today
- Star news
- The Economist
- The Huffington Post
- The Wall Street Journal
- Vice News
the games:
- 8 Ball Pool
- AMAZE
- Bejeweled
- Block Puzzle
- Classic Bejeweled
- Classic Bejeweled HD
- FlipTheGun
- Fruit Ninja
- Golf Masters
- Letter Soup
- Love Nikki
- My Emma
- Plants vs. Zombies™ Heroes
- Booking – Billiards City
- PUBG Mobile
- Tomb of the Mask
- Tomb of the Mask: Color
- Total Party Kill
- Water marbling
Social media:
- TikTok
- ToTalk
- Took
- Truecaller
- Viber
- Zoosk
Shortly after publishing reports that iOS 14 had detected apps spying on your phone, 10 percent of companies promised to stop this behavior, and Tik Tok also promised to stop engaging in these practices again. Here is the full list of apps that restricted this practice as of June 30:
News applications:
- ABC News
- Al Jazeera English
- CBC News
- CBS News
- news
the games:
- 8 Ball Pool
- AMAZE
- Classic Bejeweled
- Classic Bejeweled HD
- Letter Soup
- PUBG Mobile
- Tomb of the Mask
- Tomb of the Mask: Color
Social media:
- TikTok
- Truecaller
- Viber