True. My point on the bug aspect is that it may not be a bug, but rather their intended implementation. Or perhaps it's only a partial implementation of a feature.
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"Allow Paste" is the new Microsoft Paperclip
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True. My point on the bug aspect is that it may not be a bug, but rather their intended implementation. Or perhaps it's only a partial implementation of a feature.
A problem with this, besides the annoyance factor, is that it may condition the user to quickly click “allow” every time the warning pops up… and so they may end up doing that reflexively if a malicious app actually does paste on its own.
A feature, not a bug -
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/06/06/ios-16-require-apps-ask-users-access-clipboard/
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/06/06/ios-16-require-apps-ask-users-access-clipboard/
Why not? It wouldn’t pop up for the (safe) apps you use regularly, so warning would be notable when it happens after downloading a malicious app (which pastes without the users intent).
(Obviously, I’m assuming that “always allow“ would allow on a per-app basis.)
because being annoyed many will simply disable this security feature ”and they may end up” with ”a malicious app actually does paste on its own”. To paraphrase you.
I’m not calling for it to be totally disabled, just for paste to be allowed on a per-app basis. If you’ve clicked “OK” ten times that day after pasting btw. Messages and Safari, you may quickly tap it without thinking when it pops up in SketchyApp69.
(As suggested in post #2 of this thread.)
I get and agree that the granularity of this has to be improved - e.g. as long as you paste from the same website you shouldn’t be ask each time. But if you have opened a new webpage you should be informed - and you should have to authorize it, shouldn’t you?
I thought the issue was with apps, not specific websites. If you open a new Safari tab and are told “SketchyApp wants to paste” (b/c it’s trying to send you to a malicious page), you should get that warning – it’s not an action you initiated. If you open a new tab and paste a phrase you just copied from a trusted app (b/c you’re searching the phrase), you don’t need the warning.
Admittedly, I’m not up on the ins & outs of how these malicious apps work…
This feature sucks, it’s so redundant.
If I am pasting something, I’m actively tapping to the area of text in which the cursor is placed at, then tapping the cursor, then tapping “paste.”
No need to ask me twice. And make me wait for the pop up to appear, while wasting my time with animations such as the prompt fading in and out and my keyboard sliding out and in. Not to mention, you can’t interact with anything during and shortly after the animation.
Such a nightmare if you are copying a lot of items.
Should only be for apps that auto paste.
If I am pasting something, I’m actively tapping to the area of text in which the cursor is placed at, then tapping the cursor, then tapping “paste.”
No need to ask me twice. And make me wait for the pop up to appear, while wasting my time with animations such as the prompt fading in and out and my keyboard sliding out and in. Not to mention, you can’t interact with anything during and shortly after the animation.
Such a nightmare if you are copying a lot of items.
Should only be for apps that auto paste.
Would love to know if this is true. I hopped off of os 16 beta 3 for these reasons:
- Allow Paste
- Inability to change focus mode on lock screen like prior iOS versions (which has been fixed).
I don't think it's going away as it was purposely implemented as part of Apple's security policies. It's not an issue in that sense, it's a feature.
It sure is an annoying one. Reminds me of the early days of windows vista.
I disagree and think you (and others) misunderstand the feature.
My reading of that is that the permission check is meant to pop-up if the app tries to read the clipboard, by itself, programmatically, NOT if the user directly initiates a paste, which would be redundant. Apple's intent here is to stop apps reading the clipboard whenever they want, without the user's knowledge, not to get in the way of user's deliberately pasting.
So I do think this is a bug in their implementation.
And I disagree with that interpretation. It simply states, "requiring apps to ask users for their permission before accessing their clipboard." No caveats regarding user initiation. Nor is this identified anywhere as a bug, other than in user complaints.
The app isn't accessing the clipboard in that case, the iOS OS/keyboard/floating toolbar is. I appreciate this may seem like hair splitting, but at a technical level there really is a distinction. And this isn't a new idea that is obviously open to many interpretations (permissioning clipboard and similar APIs as used in application code has been done endlessly across multiple systems and OSes). It has nothing to do with the paste button on the toolbar; it's like pasting via cmd+v vs through a paste button in an app. One requires the app to access the clipboard, the other does not.
We shall see.
As an additional data point from beta 7: I only get the prompt when an app wants to paste automatically. Whenever I want to paste using the floating toolbar, I am never asked.
So did they solve the problem or does it only happen to some people?
So did they solve the problem or does it only happen to some people?
It was a minor, if a bit irritating, bug during a beta cycle. It was obvious how it was supposed to work and now it works that way. People just like complaining
The whole feature is stupid and redundant. If I actively engage and want to paste something, I obviously made the decision to paste something. I am not going to change my mind, what else am I supposed to do? Not paste it? Not really much of an option. If anything, a one time tip through the tipps app on how copy & paste works would have been enough
I’m on beta 7, it still prompts me if I want to paste a second time, despite actively copying and pasting
smh 🤦🏻♂️
This feature is going to suck for copying references for research papers
