iOS 7 Disables Screenshot Interruptions, Allows Users to Secretly Take Snapchat Screenshots

[donutbagel]

Troll move by Apple
Does iOS allow apps to know when a button is pressed? I remember the Obama Dashboard widget that would make a face whenever you hit shift+cmd+3/4.

 

[dernhelm]

It was a joke.... a poor one, but a joke none the less. There is no need to get on your morale high ground about it. I was in no way suggesting you don't have a life. Maybe you missed the and the at the end of my post? Or did humour.dll fail to load today?

Most of us here use Mac OS/X. That would be humor.dylib (or possibly humor.so) You really should get your geek humor right.

 

[Samjetjr]

Wow!!!

Wow....That is so cool!!! NOT...The jailbreak community has been able to save video and pictures to their devices off of Snapchat from day 1 of it's release!!!! #oldnews

 

[hugo7]

Conceptually broken

Snapchat has just got lucky up until now. Its "touch-detection/black screen/snapshot prevention" feature is just a hack. It gives the sender the false sense of security of having some control over released pictures. As others have mentioned here, once you distribute a picture, whether to friends (who can turn) or the public, it's out there and you've somewhat ceded control... and it's absolutely absurd for a (albeit sandboxed) app to control ultimate usage of a recipient's device.

If the recipient's device happened to be a dedicated SnapChat appliance then okay, but an iOS device running multiple/different apps? Get outta here!

 

[jettredmont]

If you are sending a picture across the internet, it is not private, period.

Even without iOS "breaking" SnapChat, any person who wanted could take an old-fashioned screen shot by aiming a camera at their screen and pressing the shutter release.

If you really thought SnapChat was keeping your chatees from keeping the pictures you sent them, you were horribly naïve.

 

[komodrone]

Apple needs to forbid any apps from implementing any sort of screenshot detection. I'm thinking beyond Snapchat apps but the principle is the same.

An application shouldn't know what you are doing with your device. It's a privacy issue.

AFAIK, there isn't a direct API to detect a screenshot. taking a screenshot simply removes all touches on the screen in iOS6, and Snapchat exploited this fact.

 

[stormsweeper]

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/22/no...snapchat-hack-lets-users-save-photos-forever/

 

[mantan]

If you are sending a picture across the internet, it is not private, period.

Even without iOS "breaking" SnapChat, any person who wanted could take an old-fashioned screen shot by aiming a camera at their screen and pressing the shutter release.

If you really thought SnapChat was keeping your chatees from keeping the pictures you sent them, you were horribly naïve.

I think this hits the nail on the head. I'm too old to give a schit about snapchat.

But as a dad with teenage kids, I try to consistently remind that digitial is forever. Once they post or send a pic, they ZERO control over where it goes and who sees it. You can't get lured into a false sense of security that an app is going to let you maintain digital ownership of a file you send out.

 

[Mac_Max]

Ya know what really keeps your photo private... not using Snapchat.

 

[inkhead]

As a UI designer, we've always wanted to be able to take a screenshot of us touching the screen to show another coworker a bug or state, but it would never capture it. Finally with multitasking this long standing bug is fixed…

It also allows you to take screenshots when you are half scrolled on a page or something… very very useful.

 

[xcodeaddict]

Wow....That is so cool!!! NOT...The jailbreak community has been able to save video and pictures to their devices off of Snapchat from day 1 of it's release!!!! #oldnews

Would you please ensure that you use a few more exclamation marks when posting excited comments about things, as I feel you may not have conveyed your point enough?

Many thanks.

 

[Samjetjr]

Would you please ensure that you use a few more exclamation marks when posting excited comments about things, as I feel you may not have conveyed your point enough?

Many thanks.

Your sarcasm is very much unappreciated!!! And I mean that with the utmost sincerity!!!

 

[xcodeaddict]

Your sarcasm is very much unappreciated!!! And I mean that with the utmost sincerity!!!

Oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[thinkpatience]

LMFAO, HAHAHA, OMFG...

I'm sorry this actually did make me LOL... I'm still laughing...




WOW!!!

This is the dumbest thing I've ever read, well I read it twice, then once more because I had no clue what snapchat was... but now I think I get it... OMG, I love this post, it made me happy.

Between the first 3 top comments and the actual article, I'm still laughing... thanks!

 

[Ste Nova]

i wonder if it works with Wickr

 

[deeddawg]

But as a dad with teenage kids, I try to consistently remind that digitial is forever. Once they post or send a pic, they ZERO control over where it goes and who sees it.

Yep. Here's a poor little PYT all upset because her school used a facebook picture she'd posted publicly in a presentation warning against posting pictures publicly...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-photo-used-dangers-social-media-seminar.html

 

[Zachari]

Never used Snapchat. Because I'd like to think I have a life.

Says the person on an Apple Blog, commenting on an article, in the middle of the night.

 

[Hustler1337]

I read this twice and still don't know what they're talking about....

Bro, I've read this more than twice and still don't know what it means

 

[syclonefx]

There is an alternative way to detect this. Create an AssetLibrary in the application and subscribe to library changes - disabling iCloud updates.

When a screenshot is taken, that screenshot is inserted in to the photo library and so the library has changed and the app will be notified. They're in the snapchat app looking at a picture so they're not taking a picture of their own. The only edge case would be if they were syncing with iPhoto / iTunes at the time and it was transferring images to the device, then you would get a false positive.

This is just an iOS 7 Snapchat bug -- it can be fixed

Yes it could do this, but if someone doesn't allow the app to have access right to the photo library this won't work.

 

[Elit3]

WOW Apple allowed users to do something....and better yet OUTSIDE THE APP, next they might get widgets :O So revolutionary!!!