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by _frog 2187 days ago
For Apollo's use case there's a solution: iOS 14 adds a new API that lets you perform a pattern match against the contents of the clipboard. That way Apollo can attempt to match a Reddit link, and only actually read the clipboard if that match is successful.
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Yeah the dev has commented on that. It sounds like they had a legit use case and will be using the new API.