We’ve already covered some apps here that were captured by accessing users’ clipboards thanks to a new iOS 14 feature, but that’s not all. The next major update to Apple’s mobile operating system also indicates when an app is using the camera or microphone, and that has just exposed the Instagram app.
According to some reports shared on social media by users who have already installed iOS 14, the camera indicator stays on when the Instagram app is open. Even if the user is not using the camera, such as when scrolling through the photo feed, the green dot shows that the app is accessing the camera in the background.
The expected behavior, of course, is for the app to access the camera only when needed, such as when you open the composer for Instagram Stories. However, Instagram said The edge that this behavior is just a mistake.
“We only access your camera when you ask us to, for example, when you go from Feed to Camera. We found and are fixing a bug in iOS 14 Beta that mistakenly states that some people are using the camera when they are not, “the spokesperson said.” We do not access your camera in those cases, and content is not recorded. “
According to the company, the system sometimes understands that the user has swipe to open the camera in the app, which is not always the case. Instagram promises to fix this problem in a future update to its iOS app.
Casually browsing Instagram when the new iOS 14 camera / microphone indicator suddenly turns on, then the control panel betrayed the app behind it. This is going to change things. # iOS14 pic.twitter.com/EnTIRsqq3R
– KevDoy (@KevDoy) July 17, 2020
The privacy features of iOS 14 are not yet available to the general public, but have already caused problems for some developers. More recently, LinkedIn was sued for being caught reading users’ clipboard content without authorization; the company also says it was a mistake.
iOS 14 is currently available as a beta version and is expected to be available to everyone this fall.
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