iOS 14 Tidbits and Hidden Features: Privacy Updates, Emoji Picker, New Dark Sky Weather Forecasts and More

[Xenc]

Access to Contacts overall can already be controlled. The part about selective access, that part of it isn't there (although I guess the use case for that seems somewhat unusual, at least compared to selective access to some photos, for example).

That would be really powerful if you could share certain contact groups with certain apps.

 

[cmaier]

Can’t find it.

Won’t be able to do it until after it comes out of beta - the developer of the browser needs to submit an updated app.
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Notice that the presenters kept saying “this year”. I think that the gradual rollout of features will become the norm rather than a monolithic release of all new announced features in one update as had been done in the past.

Fine by me. Only issue I’ve run into is that a certain important app thinks iOS14 represents a jailbreak. Very stable beta on iphone (ipad a little less so). I’d rather that they release the .0 version with no show stopping bugs and then add new features than do what they did with 13.0, which took many updates before I.T. Departments could stop sending out emails warning people about ios problems.

 

[Xenc]

re: Picture-in-picture, It only works with YouTube if you pay for their Premium membership.

 

[cmaier]

re: Picture-in-picture, It only works with YouTube if you pay for their Premium membership.

I’ve seen it reported that that is not yet the case. Are you sure?

 

[Frantisekj]

Access to Contacts overall can already be controlled. The part about selective access, that part of it isn't there (although I guess the use case for that seems somewhat unusual, at least compared to selective access to some photos, for example).

There is easy example of selective access control. I resigned and installed Facebook spyware Whatsapp, because of some people. But with fake phone number and without giving it access to my contacts. App is nearly unusable. I can not message anyone. Only when they message me first, i can reply then. So giving it access to small, for that purpose created group, would be solution. I made mistake of installing Instagram and giving it my contacts and regretted it soon.