Amaya Toman Security experts from the Mysk group reported at the end of last month that popular iOS and iPadOS applications were able to read data copied to the clipboard without restrictions. These were applications that had access to the contents of the clipboard without the user's express consent. These included, for example, some popular games, but also news or social networking apps — namely TikTok, ABC News, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, 8 Ball Pool, and many others.
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Dan Pražák "We've found that a lot of apps are silently reading the text that's on the clipboard every time you open that app," experts from Mysk said. The problem can potentially arise when the user does not copy plain text into the clipboard, but rather an important password or, for example, payment card details. Experts have examined some of the most popular and downloaded apps in the App Store, and found that most of them do have access to the clipboard - even if it's just text data.
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Mysk alerted Apple about this error right from the start, but they replied that there was no error. Experts from Mysk demanded that Apple take steps to minimize the possible risks associated with this fact - according to them, users should, for example, be able to determine which applications will have access to the clipboard. This week the people from Mysk confirmed that there was no change in this direction even in the iOS 13.4 operating system. However, after the whole matter became public, some developers decided to take matters into their own hands and prevent their applications from accessing the contents of the clipboard themselves.
