Every single iOS update, users gain more controls over what data app developers collect about them. The new iOS 14 is no different, except for one thing—it hasn’t even left beta and its privacy features are already causing havoc for major app developers.
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Privacy notifications, which pop up whenever an app accesses the microphone, camera or clipboard, are responsible for many apps’ dubious data collecting behaviors being outed in the past few weeks.
It’s just one privacy feature in a laundry list of new privacy-preserving features on iOS 14, which include requiring developers to declare what data they collect on their app; giving users the ability to choose whether they share their approximate location with an app instead of their precise location; and requiring developers to get users’ permission if they want to track them for advertising purposes.
But of all these additions, it’s the privacy notifications which have been causing chaos for app developers. It has been ratting out apps left and right ever since the beta was released back in June.
Last week, Instagram became the latest app to be called out by iOS 14’s privacy notifications feature after users began noticing that the green light indicator—which alerts users that the camera has been activated—kept turning on—even when the camera was not in use. Addressing the behavior, Instagram said that the activation of the camera was just a bug and that it ..
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