How can I, as a consumer, identify what information HomeKit compatible products pull from my iPhone?
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Home Compatible Data Extraction
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Homekit products (and namely their apps) have access to anything you grant them permission to access. Generally this is just 'home data'. Even then this data is very limited but its safe to assume those products could access all the information in there.
You would need to intentionally grant more permissions to allow access to more data (photos, contacts, microphone, etc etc).
Outside of what you are allowed to grant will remain inaccessible. This is Apples double edge sword referred to as sandboxing.
For example you smart plug and its associated app on your phone it can not access a 3rd party password app you may also have installed.
You would need to intentionally grant more permissions to allow access to more data (photos, contacts, microphone, etc etc).
Outside of what you are allowed to grant will remain inaccessible. This is Apples double edge sword referred to as sandboxing.
For example you smart plug and its associated app on your phone it can not access a 3rd party password app you may also have installed.
HomeKit devices by themselves only interact on the HomeKit framework level and nothing more. It's the companion app that the manufacturer provides in order to give you more functionality (e.g. usage data logging) that may want access to other parts of your phone. Of course, iOS will let you know if the app wants the access via dialog box and you can either accept or decline. You can see the list of granted apps under iOS's Settings app's "Privacy" menu. Here, you can also disable access to a certain feature for an app later on.