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I don't understand how this is even a security concern. How does it matter whether an app accesses the camera while it is taking up the full screen vs half?
Two apps sit side by side. You see the camera dot. Which one is recording you?
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Reduce the odds of a screwup by giving it to arguably the most popular app in the store? This is nothing more than apple giving themselves and their preferred partners an unfair advantage - somewhat in opposition to Tim Cooks recent statement on developer equality.
Do I have to explain that giving something to a few key apps is much easier to control and analyze than giving it to thousand of obscure apps? It also gives more to the users - the feature is available in apps most of them use. Also this will be unpopular opinion but I don’t consider Apple giving themselves features an unfair advantage. Apple obviously trusts itself more than some random dude with a Mac mini.
I really don’t see how you can view this behaviour as anything other than an unfair advantage. By all means let them level the field by not using private apis themselves.
And more importantly, when you are asked about it publicly, don’t lie about it.
This is not a new occurrence: Uber got com.apple.private.allow-explicit-graphics-priority (yes, I really mean com.apple.private!) that let them record the device screen several years back.
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Most popular apps are less likely to abuse the feature in a malicious way and it gives a great amount of users to test the feature.
Hilariously, “most popular apps” being Zoom getting busted for lacking basic communication security out of the gate when the pandemic hit and a/v comms became important. Please, tell us more about these most popular apps.
This is what bothers me most about Apple devices and software. They probably have the "best" devices out there in terms of user experience. I use an iPhone and iPad every day because of it. But they keep very tight control over what software can be installed and run on it in order to safeguard their views on UX and security/privacy. This means for me as a developer that it's hard to write software and tools for my ow…
the worst kind i think is the special entitlement whatsapp and other popular messaging apps get for abusing voip push notifications (not related to an actual voip call, but still waking up the app).
And I’m very happy about that. Imagine the horror of some apps sending notifications to wake up an app, so they can track your ip/location/whatever. I’d say give more control to Apple.
The "kill everything" approach to keep battery life is just a band aid and more often than not just ruining someone's experience. I've heard sooo many stories of people using fitness trackers on ios that stops working in the middle of a run, for instance.
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Two apps sit side by side. You see the camera dot. Which one is recording you?
Put the camera dot on the side of the app using it. Also is this really the issue? You can have an app voice recording and even quit it and it’s just fine.
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Do I have to explain that giving something to a few key apps is much easier to control and analyze than giving it to thousand of obscure apps? It also gives more to the users - the feature is available in apps most of them use. Also this will be unpopular opinion but I don’t consider Apple giving themselves features an unfair advantage. Apple obviously trusts itself more than some random dude with a Mac mini.
I’m a huge Apple fan, and am often on their side on HN (check my comments). But this whole App dev and distribution unfairness I am dead against. I really don’t see how you can view this behaviour as anything other than an unfair advantage. By all means let them level the field by not using private apis themselves. And more importantly, when you are asked about it publicly, don’t lie about it.