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iOS 16.1 Introduces New Copy-and-Paste Permission Settings on Per-App Basis
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Yup.
Or, alternatively, to let me mark certain apps as "always show me release notes for these".
If I auto-install nothing, I end up with hundreds of updates that I won't read anyway. If I auto-install everything, I miss out on changes.
I agree, I still don’t understand why each app needs 5 options for siri and search.
"Apple released iOS 16.0.2 with a fix for the issue " How? I had 16.0.2 (now I'm on 16.0.3) Still have that nagging copy permission issue? anyone has this issue?
I am using SwiftKey and figured out that you need to change one setting. Simply go to Settings > Microsoft SwiftKey > Paste from Other Apps > Allow, and it will not annoy you anymore. It works for me.
I am using SwiftKey and figured out that you need to change one setting. Simply go to Settings > Microsoft SwiftKey > Paste from Other Apps > Allow, and it will not annoy you anymore. It works for me.
Is there an easier way to do this? I’d love a screen that lists every app and let’s me enable/disable pasting from there.
Even better -
Select All button
Select None button
Highlight multiple apps and choose setting for all of them at once.
So much this. I used to just delete texts from senders that I trust. Now I have to add 10+ numbers to each one to avoid accidentally reporting them as spam…which has already happened.
iOS 16 introduced a new privacy feature that requires apps to receive a user's permission before directly accessing their iPhone's clipboard to paste text from other apps, but some users experienced an issue that caused the prompt to appear excessively. Apple released iOS 16.0.2 with a fix for the issue and other bugs in late September.
Apple has continued to refine the copy-and-paste feature in the weeks since. In the Settings app on the fourth beta of iOS 16.1 and later, a new "Paste from Other Apps" menu appears for apps that have previously asked for permission to paste content from another app. The menu can be found in the Settings app → [App Name] → Paste from Other Apps.
The menu presents users with three options:
The menu gives users more granular control and flexibility over the copy-and-paste permission prompts, which should help make the privacy feature less of a nuisance. Note that the menu does not appear for apps that have never requested clipboard permission.
- Ask: The app must continue to request permission to paste content from other apps.
- Deny: The app cannot paste content from other apps.
- Allow: The app can paste content from other apps without asking for permission again.
Last month, an Apple engineer said the copy-and-paste permission prompt only appears when an app attempts to access the clipboard directly. The prompt does not appear when a user selects the "Paste" option in the menu that pops up after highlighting text or interacts with apps that have paste buttons based on the UIPasteControl framework.
iOS 16.1 remains in beta testing and is expected to be released later this month.
(Thanks, Youssef Salem!)
Article Link: iOS 16.1 Introduces New Copy-and-Paste Permission Settings on Per-App Basis
I’m running the latest iOS 16.3.1 (20D67), and I just attempted to manually paste a URL into a new text message compose window in the Apple built-in Medsages app that was copied in Safari, and I just now got the Alert panel asking me if I want to Allow the *manual user initiated paste.
Clearly, the Allow Paste bug that relates to the panel popping up even when users manually perform a copy/paste has not been fixed. (Or it’s possible Apple re-introduced the bug in the iOS 16.3.1 release).
I am *not using a 3rd party keyboard (just the Apple-supplied QUERTY, Greek, and Emoji keyboards).
Also, if I go into the Settings for the Messages app, there’s no sub-menu to fine-tune control the Allow Paste permissions like there is when you drill into the Settings for a third party app. I believe this is also a bug.
I’m curious if anyone else has noticed this re-introduced bug behavior (and lack of Allow Paste submenu in Apple Messages app Settings) since upgrading to iOS 16.3.1. I can’t be the only one. In fact, something is indeed strange about what happened today — and that is that today is the first time I’ve seen the Allow Paste pop-up occur in the Messages app (with re-introduced bug) despite the fact iOS 16.3.1 has been installed on my phone for weeks now, and that I’ve absolutely copied/pasted URLs from Safari into messages multiple times since then, yet today is the. first day I see the pop up???
How can this possibly be? I sure hope Apple isn’t installing secret OTA updates/patches on phones without notifying the user! That would be unacceptable, especially considering I have automatic updates and automatic security patch updates turned OFF. I fully support the new emergency security patch feature in iOS, but I wish to fully control the downloading and installation of any & all updates. If in fact Apple does have the ability to install OTA patches on the fly without user intervention, then they better damn well be notifying the user in no uncertain terms that a patch is about to be installed automatically or has just been installed, in a way that forces the user to acknowledge that the understand a new patch has been installed. And they should provide the details of the emergency patch in Settings —>General —> About.
— does anyone know if Apple has the ability to install OTA patches in a completely silent way without notifying the user and without even having a place for users to check to see if a silent emergency patch has been installed? If Apple does indeed fully silently install OTA patches, then that would be absolutely unacceptable. There can be no excuse that this is necessary to avoid tipping off hackers, for example. If Apple force-installs a security patch, merely notifying the user that a patch was necessary to install without giving specific details presents zero risk. If it turns out Apple is silently installing patches, that’s it, I’m done with Apple products. And I know there are plethora people with the same opinion.
