They used to be allow all the permissions they want or don't by not installing the app. Now, there are still plenty of things you wouldn't want to provide apps access to that they get outside of your control.
> They used to be allow all the permissions they want or don't by not installing the ap
That was never an issue with iOS. For some reason I am not surprised that an operating system created by an adTech company doesn't care about your privacy,
> there are still plenty of things you wouldn't want to provide apps access to that they get outside of your control.
>> there are still plenty of things you wouldn't want to provide apps access to that they get outside of your control.
> Such ss?
Well, sandbox escapes have already been talked about. But, I also believe accelerometer data isn't gated. Any app can talk to the Internet. But, I don't have a modern iPhone to corroborate that info.
> I've run every version of iOS. It always gave you a pop up to request permissions as needed.
Since the first release of the iPhone? I find that hard to believe since the release notes for iOS 6 specifically called out their fine-grained permissions improvements. There was clearly some wholesale bundling before that.
> Citation? And I'm not referring to targeted state actions.
> Since the first release of the iPhone? I find that hard to believe since the release notes for iOS 6 specifically called out their fine-grained permissions improvements. There was clearly some wholesale bundling before that.
There has never been a version of iOS that forced you to accept all permissions before you could download it. I'm not even sure that would be possible. The OS wouldn't know what permissions an app needed until the first time you called a function that needed the permission.
Tightening down permissions is more along the lines of only allowing an app to have access to certain pictures instead of your entire library.
> There has never been a version of iOS that forced you to accept all permissions before you could download it.
I didn't say that. I said they had access without any sort of permission mechanism. The bundling I was referring to was both the fine-grained access, and permissions that weren't gated.
> The OS wouldn't know what permissions an app needed until the first time you called a function that needed the permission.
The app can advertise to the OS which capabilities it will use and then the OS can deny the app access to anything it hasn't requested or it has but the user has not allowed.
> Tightening down permissions is more along the lines of only allowing an app to have access to certain pictures instead of your entire library.
That was never an issue with iOS. For some reason I am not surprised that an operating system created by an adTech company doesn't care about your privacy,
> there are still plenty of things you wouldn't want to provide apps access to that they get outside of your control.
Such ss?