The good news is that Apple has introduced a new privacy feature in iOS 14 that will actually let you know when an app is reading your clipboard without your express consent, and it’s already caught TikTok with its hand in the cookie jar, along with dozens of others, including popular apps like LinkedIn and Reddit. For example, a photo sitting on your clipboard could contain location information and other sensitive data, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see apps sniffing for this kind of information, especially considering how many also aggressively collect location data in every possible way.įurther, thanks to Apple’s handoff and continuity features, your clipboard is actually shared between all of your Apple devices, so an app on your iPhone could potentially pick up data that you copied to the clipboard on your Mac or iPad. On the other hand, it’s also quite open to potential abuse, especially on a mobile device, as researchers demonstrated. Pinterest and Pocket will both helpfully offer to save links they find on your clipboard as soon as you open them, many RSS readers will offer to subscribe you to a feed they find on their clipboard, and even Photoshop for iPad can offer to create a new document for you based on the specs of an image that’s sitting on your clipboard. To be clear, there are many valid reasons why third-party apps may want to access your clipboard.
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