TikTok says it will stop accessing clipboard content on iOS devices

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TikTok says it will stop accessing users' clipboard content on iOS devices, downstream a new taciturnity transparency fondness in iOS 14 appear the video sharing podium was continuing the practice it had pledged last year to discontinue, the Telegraph reported.

Whenever a third-party app accesses the clipboard of a dingbat with iOS 14, a notification pops up. Users distinguishable that TikTok was blockage content from the clipboard every few keystrokes, upscale back the app was sportive in the background.

Okay so TikTok is grabby the details of my clipboard every 1-3 keystrokes. iOS 14 is snitching on it with the new rosin notification pic.twitter.com/OSXP43t5SZ

-- Jeremy Burge (@jeremyburge) June 24, 2020

TikTok parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance had said beforehand this year it planned to stop accessing devices' clipboards, the Telegraph reported, except did not harmonize a firm date.

A TikTok spokesperson said in a statement emailed to The Verge on Friday that it had submitted an update to the App Teemingness to remove the feature, which it described as an "anti-spam" measure. The fondness was never introduced to Android devices, according to the company.

"Following the beta remission of iOS 14 on June 22, users saw notifications while using a number of popular apps. For TikTok, this was triggered by a fondness examined to inquire repetitive, spammy behavior," the spokesperson said, count the convergence was "committed to protecting users' taciturnity as well-built as being transparent narrowly how our app works."

TikTok has divulged beneath criticism for practiced security issues; in February 2019, the convergence paid $5.7 parodist to the Federal Trade Commission over described violations of COPPA, a children's taciturnity law. It had been arrogation children beneath 13 years old to trust up for the app without parental consent. It's since made changes to the app that increased parental controls.

And several US government agencies, including the Transportation Security Administration, the State Department, the Department of Illahie Security, the Navy as well-built as the Army, hypothesize bootlegged the use of the app on government-issued devices, citing security regarding over ByteDance's connections to the Chinese government.