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541: Make a Little Maze

Accidental Tech Podcast

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The Cost of Full Photo Library Access

Full photo access basically means that you have Mostly unfettered access to the user's photo library. An app can actually use that technique and this is what I do in masquerade You can ask the system. "I would like one photo one photo only please" And then you don't have to do any of the scary permissions Dialogues because you are doing an xpc call across process whatever a call that basically says to apple system Look, I don't care what you do or how you do it Just give me a photo back Please. But yeah, uh, if you could do full photo full access that that app developer could could be super shady and you'd be none The wiser

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