Agreed..sometimes it just makes cool wallpaper. I do respect copyrighted material though so I can see both sides. Not a fan of this being added to apps if this removes a function of my phone. I would delete the app if a dev added this to an app.
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Confide Introducing New 'ScreenShield' SDK That Will Allow Developers to 'Screenshot-Proof' Their Apps
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Agreed..sometimes it just makes cool wallpaper. I do respect copyrighted material though so I can see both sides. Not a fan of this being added to apps if this removes a function of my phone. I would delete the app if a dev added this to an app.
Do you remember TC stating years ago Apple was going to make iOS more open. Apart from the File app, it seems more closed than ever, now this.
Why take a screenshot when you can browse the app's source to get the original images in their glorious full resolution......
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Until an iOS patch breaks whatever hack they’ve used to track when a screenshot or recording has been triggered.
Cool..
With the inbuilt camera, or anything on the phone, the app can block it in code.. but what if you recording the phone with a separate camera with no cables attached to a phone at all? not attached in any way?
Unless the app in smart enough to "know" i am being recorded by something other than something that is attached/connected.
More likely its probably designed to "assist" with prevention, not meant to be 100%
I mean, websites can easily block you from viewing their source code, but i'm sure there would be ways to get around it.
With the inbuilt camera, or anything on the phone, the app can block it in code.. but what if you recording the phone with a separate camera with no cables attached to a phone at all? not attached in any way?
Unless the app in smart enough to "know" i am being recorded by something other than something that is attached/connected.
More likely its probably designed to "assist" with prevention, not meant to be 100%
I mean, websites can easily block you from viewing their source code, but i'm sure there would be ways to get around it.
Well, if those apps use it and users get upset, tell them and rate the app poorly. They will adjust or fail as a business. I don't see what the problem is here.
I don't really this feature as bad added to the app... How many are that concerned with taking screenshots when they just wish to use an app ? If i wanna use Facebook, why would i wanna take a screenshot of it, when someone else can install the same app ?
It would have an effect not being able to share screenshots, recordings etc, but i don't believe the % would be that high
Most people dumb enough to steal copyrighted photos to pass off as their own or to use for whatever commercial purpose that they don't have a license to will not go to such lengths. Also with a photo stream on something like Instagram with a bunch of <1MB images it might all just be stored and eventually purged from memory as it runs. Not sure. I know in our app we used an open source caching mechanism because our use case was different and we needed to optimize load time for a slowish server with content that didn't update rapidly. But that was basically a side feature, a front-end for our crappy non-mobile optimized website which I finally redesigned last year after inheriting it a few years before that.
I hope Apple doesn't approve this. I should be able to take screenshots on my own device. Like someone else already mentioned, I will delete any app that adds this "feature."
Social networks want to be protective of their content. They sometimes want to make it more difficult to put their content on another platform. They would rather people link to their platform instead. In your example, someone might screenshot the image and then crop it and post it on Twitter. Instead they would rather that person tweet a link to a FaceBook post so they can sell ad impressions.
I'm not arguing this example is a good idea, but it's a valid example of why a company would implement this.
Seriously, guys? Somebody sends you a message with a 4 second timer, and you’ll be ready with your camera and/or second phone to capture that glorious sext forever? 
MUH FREEDUMS
Upset people: this is for a secure messaging app. The point is to prevent screen captures of sexting not take away your constitutional freedoms.
MUH FREEDUMS
It relies on the cameras that are already all over our cities, watching us whenever we are in public. And at home it turns on the cameras in your computers and tablets to watch what you are doing with your phone. If it sees you reaching for the screenshot combination of buttons, it signals the app to blank out the display. Nothing to it!Geez, I wanna see the API that stops you from picking up a camera or another phone and take screen shot
Apple will not allow this. There is a restrictions PLIST value that blocks screenshots and screen recordings installable via configuration profile. Apple would make an API available that does this on an app level instead of system level if they want to allow it.
Now if Confide wants to allow this only in their app, then it’s no big deal.
Now if Confide wants to allow this only in their app, then it’s no big deal.
What a useless and malfeasant piece of crap software. As soon as I encounter a app that uses this technology I make sure to take a extra portion of screenshot with a secondary device and spread them over the internet.
If they go on with this crap jailbreaking might become interesting again.
If they go on with this crap jailbreaking might become interesting again.
looks like it doesn't prevent voice memos from recording Siri dictation of the text messages though https://twitter.com/komocode/status/951324627812233216
Apparently, the company is also coming up with a way to prevent the contents on the screen from being photographed by another camera as well.
https://daringfireball.net/2018/01/screenshield