A recent update to the Facebook’s iOS app introduced a bug that had some users worried
Earlier in November, several iPhone users started experiencing a mysterious glitch while using the Facebook app. The issue got wider traction once some of them, including Joshua Maddux, went to Twitter to share their experience, CNET reports.
The glitch is triggered when you watch a video in full screen in landscape mode and then revert to normal. You would then notice that the app’s UI (user interface) would shift slightly to the right side. In the space left you could clearly see that your phone’s camera has been activated in the background. In the case of another user, after doing the same the camera app was activated directly. The camera remains in the preview mode and does not appear to record anything. The bug only seems to affect users who are running iOS 13 – no such issue has been reported by Android users.
Facebook’s vice president of integrity Guy Rosen said that this indeed appeared to be a bug and that the company will be looking into the issue. In a later response to another tweet, he said that there was no evidence that photos or videos were being uploaded due to the bug, as well as that a fix had already been shipped to App Store.
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