It's hard to know when no one says "no".Apple devs and engineers must be running around like lost cockroaches, not knowing which path to take.
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Apple Executive Responds to Annoying iOS 16 Copy and Paste Prompt: 'Absolutely Not Expected Behavior'
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)The bigger issue is Apple doesn't distinguish between the User invoking paste, and a malicious app constantly trying to read from the clipboard (without any interaction by the user, or even while running in the background).
That’s the bug.
An intentional copy/paste won’t trigger the pop up, which is the “expected behavior.”
The bug is that there is any pop up at all when the user has initiated the action.
There was an annoying copy-and-paste notification in earlier iOSs, too. It made no sense. If I copy text from one app and then paste it into another, I know what I’m doing and don't need a prompt. That eventually got dropped.
What concerns me is that ANY app could ever access the clipboard WITHOUT my permission. It should NEVER happen.
No app should be able to read the clipboard willy-nilly without user action, decision, or intervention. I may have copied financial data, medical information, passwords, or personal, private messages from one place to another, even within an app, say, Pages. That content should NEVER be available at any point to another app without my taking an action to paste it. No app should be able to scan, read, and use the contents of my clipboard.
Otherwise, things are ripe for hacking, identity theft, and password stealing.
What concerns me is that ANY app could ever access the clipboard WITHOUT my permission. It should NEVER happen.
No app should be able to read the clipboard willy-nilly without user action, decision, or intervention. I may have copied financial data, medical information, passwords, or personal, private messages from one place to another, even within an app, say, Pages. That content should NEVER be available at any point to another app without my taking an action to paste it. No app should be able to scan, read, and use the contents of my clipboard.
Otherwise, things are ripe for hacking, identity theft, and password stealing.
Haha seriously? Because they are releasing a new operating system every single year! It’s not long enough to build and completely test, that’s why. They rush out everything instead of having say a two year OS release cycle where it’s built and properly tested. This also happens when iPhone and watches are new every single year, bend gate is a prime example, building and releasing a new phone in 1 year is not long enough to do proper testing. It just isn’t! Where will always be problems on a yearly cycle of such advanced technology..
Some of my new iPhone Pro Max issues:
Overheating.
Abysmal battery life.
Safari white screen.
UI lag.
Overheating.
Abysmal battery life.
Safari white screen.
UI lag.
This is exactly what you want. If a 3rd-party keyboard is trying to read the clipboard every time I copy something, that would be a huge privacy concern.
Yeah, I haven't really found it to be an annoyance. Actually more of a reassurance. But it is isn't like I am copying and pasting constantly either.
It feels like every few years iOS development starts to slack, and eventually the bugs and problems get severe enough that the executives whip everyone back into shape.
Last time this happened was around the iPhone 7 iOS 10 era. Remember how badly the OS was stuttering during normal usage? Constant frame hitching when scrolling, moving between apps, etc. Eventually someone at Apple stomped their foot down and made UI smoothness a priority, and it all got fixed.
With all the weird bugs we're seeing we're probably nearing someone having to do that again.
Last time this happened was around the iPhone 7 iOS 10 era. Remember how badly the OS was stuttering during normal usage? Constant frame hitching when scrolling, moving between apps, etc. Eventually someone at Apple stomped their foot down and made UI smoothness a priority, and it all got fixed.
With all the weird bugs we're seeing we're probably nearing someone having to do that again.
Feedback mechanism is completely broken… Since 2020 they mainly use AI to sort feedbacks, but this obviously doesn’t work… Almost every feedback gets lost! Human could be helped by AI, that’s fine, but AI shouldn’t be the only way of sorting them! A human working at Apple should see every feedback at one point, not only a machine! That’s a shame, and they don’t seem to do anything about it…
I use a keyboard translator constantly to communicate with a friend in Mexico. With every single translation, I have to approve the pasting of copied messages from the clipboard into the translator to see the translation. It is a giant PTA. Why is there not a blanket approval for certain apps to paste to the clipboard on a per app basis instead of a per copy and paste basis? To require approval for every single transaction is ludicrous .
2 out of those four issues you just mentioned can easily be fixed in a 16.0.2 update that could be released as early as today, and then the issues will never be thought about ever again.
One of the issues you mentioned literally requires nothing but a hard reboot, something that takes… 30 seconds? Sure it’s annoying, but there’s been far worse in the past.
As for the camera issue, that one is most likely software that can be fixed in an update, but even if it’s not, you can easily get your phone replaced. Every person I’ve heard who’s taken their phone to the store to get it replaced because of the camera rattle has gotten it replaced no questions asked.
Bugs happen. They’re annoying, they don’t reflect great on the company, but they happen. For everyone.
Apple has had launch issues in the past, as far back as the iPhone 3G, which for some people took over 24 hours to activate.
Google has shipped phones without any operating system installed on them at all. Just a useless brick.
Samsung has shipped phones with exploding batteries.
Every phone, every operating system, every application has the possibility of having bugs or issues.
It becomes especially prevalent when you’re a company like Apple who is reported to have built 90 million iPhone 14 units just for the rest of 2022.
And there is the problem, Apple cannot see the bugs in house because they are so blind and stupid in how the conduct quality assurance! No wonder every OS they have is riddled with annoying bugs.
I don't see a popup for report junk but at the bottom of the message window, it says "The sender is not in your contact list. Report Junk". That's at the bottom of all my spam texts and short codes. IIRC that only started showing up when I upgraded to iOS 16.
Well that’s interesting. I have experienced this through all of the betas and thought it was as intended. And to be honest, I really don’t mind being asked each time because I’d rather know if an app is asking for clipboard access (even if I’m prompting it.)
Users on this forum: “It’s a beta.” “You know it’s a beta right?”
Yeah, Apple didn’t fix **** since beta one and shipped this annoying bug on release.
Then you had users actually praising and liking this bug, even though it was redundant. Lol
Yeah, Apple didn’t fix **** since beta one and shipped this annoying bug on release.
Then you had users actually praising and liking this bug, even though it was redundant. Lol
You're confusing notifications with prompts. There was an issue where some apps were accessing the clipboard frequently, and the new notification brought that fact to the users' attention. Many apps fell into hot water, and updates were needed.
This is a new user-controlled access control to the clipboard/pasteboard data, and for some users, their choice is not being saved, so it asks each time they paste.
Will be fixed.
I get both the popup (when deleting the thread) and the report junk button in thread window. But as aforementioned in my reply, they show up on messages I want, and not spam, ever.