Amaya Toman Apple announced some major news at this year's WWDC, whose opening Keynote took place this week. One of them, for example, was the announcement that in the iOS 13 operating system, developers will be denied access to data from the "Notes" field in the native Contacts application. This is because users often tended to enter very sensitive data in this field.
According to a TechCrunch report, there are a large number of users who have become accustomed to entering not only addresses, but also various passwords, for example, in the Notes section of the Contacts application. Although security experts strongly warn against such behavior, it is clearly a deeply rooted habit.
It turned out that many people are entering passwords and other sensitive information, such as PIN codes for payment cards or numerical codes for security devices, in the address books on their iOS devices. Some of them also entered sensitive data related to the contact in the notes.
Previous versions of the iOS operating system worked in such a way that if a developer obtained consent to access information in the Contacts application, they also obtained all data from the Notes field. But with the arrival of iOS 13, Apple will deny developers this access for security reasons.
According to Apple, the Notes field can contain, for example, malicious remarks about the person's supervisor, but the reality is much more serious and the corresponding field often contains information that users would not normally want to share with anyone. In the vast majority of cases, there is no single reason why developers would need access to the Notes field. In case of real need, however, they can fill out the relevant application for exemption.
