iPhones With iOS 14 Beta Warn That Instagram Is Using The Camera Without Permission
It is never a good sign when a possibly unintended behavior of an app gets highlighted as a potential privacy issue. Users are reporting seeing the green camera in use indicator on the iPhone’s notification bar when the Instagram app is in use and they are casually just scrolling through the feed. Apple added the green notification dot to the iOS 14 setup, much in line with how it notifies users when the FaceTime camera is in use on a Mac computing device. Instagram is using the camera to possibly collect information from the FaceTime camera on the iPhone even though a user isn’t trying to take a photo, post a story or record an Instagram Reels post. Earlier, apps including Chinese social media app TikTok, LinkedIn, and Reddit were discovered to be accessing users’ clipboard content, because iOS 14 shares a notification with users when that is happening.
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