Apps that can access your photos without permission, is this reasonable?

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For a while, some users have been communicating with us with concern that some applications can access photos without permission, is this reasonable? Are there really some apps that can access your photos without your permission? And why doesn't a notification appear that the app wants to access the Pictures folder, and opens the photos immediately?

Certainly you came across this, and perhaps you did not pay attention to it and thought that you gave permission for the application to access your photos, but the truth is you really did not do this, and the application displayed your pictures to choose a picture without your permission or permission, but moment, the pictures folder that the application opened cannot access To a picture of it or to know its content or access to any image of it, only the image that you choose and press OK, and this image is the only image that the application can access.

IOS is still secure, but it tries to make it easier for the user

Some applications require you to choose one or several pictures in order to place them as your account picture, for example, and therefore Apple offers developers the ability to show the pictures folder for the user to choose an image, but the application itself does not have the authority to view these images or access them in any way, so there is no need for a permit You are just confused about pictures and press OK, and here the app has permission to get these images only.

So do not panic if you find the application shows you the pictures folder without permission, there is nothing to worry about, your pictures are still safe and you can simply not choose an image and press the cancel button, if you do not want to share any image with the application.

More safety with the permission to add only

In iOS 11, Apple forced developers who had apps that only wanted to add photos to the Pictures folder and did not require that you view your photos to take permission. Just addTherefore, they can add pictures to the Pictures folder without any authority for them to see what this folder contains, and Apple is working to popularize this rule and over time, applications that violate this condition will be deleted.

And in order to know the applications that have full access to the pictures folder or only have add permission and therefore are very safe, you can open the device settings, privacy, pictures

As you can see, Zamen app only has add permission, “Zamen app is safe” :) We only need add permission to save the images you want to keep from any article.

Apple's system is already safe, and a lot of users do not know these details that make their life safe and it is not a requirement to know, there are thousands of small and large details that ensure that the user feels safe and without any sacrifice or responsibility, such as a lot of messages, requests for access and settings, all of this so that it is safe. On the contrary, the iOS system guarantees security, starting from the software store that Apple controls, ending with a very powerful system that is difficult to pass anything to anyone who dares to infringe on your privacy.

This image was posted on our Instagram account just to joke with our followers, and we were imagining what would happen if the developers were honest in their access permission requests :) Follow us on Instagram

Have you ever noticed that some applications do not request permission to access the Pictures folder, and did this concern you? We hope that this article will be useful to you, and we hope to share it so that the information reaches all users.

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22 comment

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Abdullah Al-Otaibi

Thank you
Beautiful article and very useful information
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Abdullah

This is what I don't see but Apple .. Protecting my privacy and data is more important than appearance and additions ..
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Ali Hussein Salem Saleh Al-Mirfadi

But people are afraid of privacy in an abnormal way. Now Apple’s system has become simple. It asks you to add and does not send the image. It asks you to choose the image and does not send the images. Did you see how the addition is when you add a picture from within the application, the file management application or the giant?
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Ali Hussein Salem Saleh Al-Mirfadi

By God, I am the same as what I expected. I know that the applications will not deliver the complete images, but rather in a specific manner. I could have said this before in one of the comments, my words came out correctly.
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Nour and Wissam

Thanks 🌹
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Ahmad ali

The general rule is that we always and never worry about our privacy, no matter how Apple and others assure us, and we have a lesson in many incidents of data breach of the most fortified institutions that we hear about from time to time. Always be careful
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    Abu Ali

    It's okay to worry, but not too much
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mustapha phone

Thank you ..
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Hamza Al-Abed

Apple is like Public Security 911 We are at the service of the people, and you are in security and safety with us 🙄😘
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Amr Yousry

Everyone noticed that, but I am concerned about all applications, whether they are requested or not ,, applications teach everything about a human being
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Ramzi Khaled

Yes I have noticed that before
In several applications, for example
bigolive
microsoft edge
It looked like a system loophole

Today's article reassured me
I just need confirmation 🙂
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Mohamed Ahmed

The iOS system is a part of the application, so do not say that the IOS system is safe, because it is still a subscriber to a scattered app store, and the company that manufactures it and manufactures its devices is still within a country and under the administration of a state and not under the administration of the United Nations system.
And your application is one of the evasive and inclined applications about the rights and regulations that must be present in the iOS system and its data center.
But we are still evolving and your brains must also evolve so that you recognize the rights and regulations that must exist in Apple in order for it to be under the management of the United Nations system, and the spirit of control and self-love that is not legal and not systematic, you must avoid it, so that your heads do not avoid your bodies.
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    Ramzi Khaled

    United Nations
    system
    Your brains
    Spirit of control
    App store scattered

    A Ramadan hallucination with an Android mentality
    ????????????

    I do not luck with the thinness of a tympanic expression
    Android nowadays we have become
    We find it difficult to understand them
    And it seems that they are dying
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    Anonymous

    Hahahahahaha you are right, my brother Ramzi, the type he takes is adulterated, his style is weak, he doesn’t know what he is saying, he said the United Nations 🤣
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    Hamza Al-Abed

    ????????
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    Mohammed

    I honestly want to get to know you and sit with you so that I know more about you, you have a thought of Khanfshari and your case deserves to be studied
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    Happy

    Your comment is sketchy and familiar from Android, and the conspiracy theory nestles in their minds.

    There is a system in America that protects consumers
    A system in the European Union that protects consumers
    A system in China and East Asian countries that protects consumers
    System in India as well
    And systems in the Arab countries
    And all of these countries use the iPhone in the case of the Arab user.
    Androydi comes crouching in the conspiracy theory, as if all systems are anonymous and weak in front of Apple.

    Ahmed Rabak, Apple has turned to the Arabs, and if it were not for the fierce competition in this market, you will see the iPhone still does not support Arabic, and you are still with a closed mind.

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    Ramzi Khaled

    Think khanfchaoui 😂😂😂
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    Ali Hussein Salem Saleh Al-Mirfadi

    That is, by God, it is as if he was drunk. What is the income of a mother who is united in privacy, my brother, but he has taken off
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the narrator

Nice words..
But a big problem can occur if you rely on guided access.
For example, you gave your phone to a stranger just to look at a specific page in a specific app and you enabled Guided Access on the app you wanted… but suddenly you find him looking at your photo album! Even though you are 100% sure that you enabled Guided Access so that he cannot leave the app you enabled for him (of course the app does not have access to the photo album).

It happened to me once and I thought that this application exploits a flaw in the terms of the software store, but after researching I understood the issue.
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ipower_man

شكرا لكم
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Hamza Al-Abed

Thank you
Beautiful article and very useful information 😘
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