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Apple Executive Responds to Annoying iOS 16 Copy and Paste Prompt: 'Absolutely Not Expected Behavior'

kylelerner said:
Why can’t they just make it so that apps cannot read the clipboard unless paste is selected onscreen or via keystroke?
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Because those events are not under full control of the OS, but at least partially application-controlled.
 
Stromos said:
How many bugs is it gonna take before you stop defending Apple?

1. Activation issues requiring a day one update and some users still seeing activation issues after said update.
2. Restoring from phone backup causing phone lockup errors that require hard reboot.
3. Cameras rattling inside the phone (Hardware but including it anyways).
4. Clipboard harassing users for every paste operation.
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Why do you care and get so worked up about it?

It's not defending Apple, it's about knowing that major software OS releases/updates always come with bugs, especially as features and hardware have rapidly become much more complex over time.

100.0% perfection 100.0% of the time does not exist in the real world. With the exception of gravity.

Apple will fix the bugs and life goes on. Easy.

If that's not good enough for you, simply vote with your wallet and purchase a competitor phone. And find true happiness. Will you do it?
 
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I see it constantly on my 14 Pro Max. I actually find it interesting to see the apps that want clipboard access.
 
I was very upset when an app I use, that I know is not safe, but don't care because I use it on my iPhone and everything is sandboxed, started showing me that it was pasting from my clipboard every time I opened it(iOS 15). I had no way of stopping it, just saw that it was doing it. So I just kept my clipboard empty when opening the app. Then it saw it copy from my work computer, I was excited to see that it couldn't paste without my permission, but now its to far asking me to allow paste when I initiate the paste. /rant
 
mwickens said:
It hasn’t for most people, including me. Started with the 16.1 beta for me, on both iPad Pro and iPhone 14 Pro.
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It was the first thing I noticed when I installed iOS 16 beta. There are plenty of articles complaining about it going back to beta 1.
 
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Every single time.

FFS! Apple just get it sorted!

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Can't believe people on here defending Apple on this. It's a major f-up.
 
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Saturn007 said:
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.
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Interesting. As far as I know, Linux, Windows, nor MacOS provide this kind of restricted access to the clipboard. Do you consider this a requirement on those devices too?
 
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Kissmo1980 said:
And here I am thinking I'm the only one suffering from this Allow Paste "thingy"
There are some apps - like Fantastical 2 - which always prompts me even when I don't plan to paste anything.

Well, glad to see Apple is publicly commenting on this 🎉🎉
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It's a good thing I ditched Fantastical after the upgrade to Fantastical 2. Fantastical shouldn't be accessing the pasteboard when you are not pasting anything.
 
Marktaco said:
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 .
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I'm not sure I understand. Are you typing in another editor and pasting into the keyboard translator? Or how does this need the pasteboard?
 
mwickens said:
It hasn’t for most people, including me. Started with the 16.1 beta for me, on both iPad Pro and iPhone 14 Pro.
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Yeah its been there for me since the very 1st iOS 16 beta and its super annoying. People have been complaining on the r/iOSBeta sub for a while now. Its awful
 
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rorschach said:
It seems like a bug that was introduced very late because I don’t remember seeing it throughout the beta period.
It must have been in the last beta or RC.
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No it definitely has been there since iOS 16 Beta 1. I had it, and continue to have it, to this day. Its super annoying.
 
I got this when trying to paste a password from my password manager. I assumed it was related to some special setting when the copy to the clipboard was originally performed — I know it turns off Continuity so that it doesn't get copied to the shared clipboard and able to be pasted on other machines. Personally, I like it, because otherwise how do I know some other process isn't trying to steal that password off the clipboard (sorry, pasteboard in iOS lingo) for the moment it's available.
 
I know there have been bugs before, but this is yet more evidence that Apple needs to slow down a bit and refine what they currently have before shoving more features into it for the sake of marketing.

I understand there is more than one person working on this, but I can’t help but wonder how much time was devoted to reinventing notifications to pretty up the hole punch, instead of polishing and fixing bugs and focusing on the overall experience.

So many major issues in this release.
 
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This popup is getting on my bloody nerves, I'm trying to copy a link and paste it into the safari browser and then this pops up, over and over. YES I want to allow it or I wouldn't have manually copied the bloody thing would I. Heads need to roll over this "feature" as it's nothing but annoying.
 
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And every single time you delete a message in Messages if it's not in your contacts it asks if you want to report it as Junk. That should be an option you can toggle on or off in Settings or with a long press or something. It's supremely annoying.
 
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hmm 10 years ago a Map App debuted with some beta bugs that were fixed in a few weeks and that's all that was needed to push Scott Forstall (the captain of the iOS ship) out of the company.

Yet there's been a multitude of software issues in the decade since with no consequences. Management hasn't been shakin' up or called to task. All the while Craig Federighi is like "I got the hair & I make dad jokes at the keynotes" and the fanboys all clap.
 
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antiprotest said:
The weird thing is, I have pasted a bit across apps and also with hand-off and I have not seen this pop up to ask for permission even once. So while others are getting this too often, I am not seeing this at all on iOS 16.

In any case, this should be like any other category under privacy. For each app: always allow, allow once (ask every time), never allow.
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No, it isn’t as simple as that. The point of this being a feature is because some apps automatically copied your clipboard without you allowing it so they put this barrier to avoid this for privacy concerns. The problem is the warning shouldn’t appear when the user is the one copying and pasting. The software should have a way of knowing when the app is trying to access the clipboard without the user interaction.

Seems like a really dumb thing to overlook, again, Apple software it’s just bad as it’s been since the iPhone 7
 
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