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As processing power increases, as does the power requirements of apps increase.  Sure, many will optimise initially, but as they realise they can do more with the new SoC, they would be foolish to not take advantage. 

IreneW said:

mretondo said:

mjtomlin said:

Good for Apple.

The importance of Google’s Project Zero cannot be overstated, but the handling of this issue was sloppy and irresponsible. It’s now obvious this was little more than a smear campaign against Apple as the issue was not only fixed in a timely manner 6 months ago, but singling out iOS as the only target was disingenuous when vulnerabilities in Windows and Android were exploited as well.

There is no way the Project Zero team did not know ALL the facts of this “attack” and it’s apparent that Google marketing must’ve stepped in and decided to publicly disclose only certain aspects to disparage iOS.

Yeah! Google really blew there credibility by not mentioning that Android had the same exploit.

Except that it didn't.

This particular hack was extremely complex (please read the report), and worked on iOS only. No doubt the Chinese tried to attack an probably managed to attack Android as well, but there are no credible reports (that I have heard of).

https://www.volexity.com/blog/2019/09/02/digital-crackdown-large-scale-surveillance-and-exploitation-of-uyghurs/ Highlights how Android AND Gmail tracking code was all over the same websites Prōject Zero had notified Apple about. It Is incomprehensible that Google would have notified Apple about the iOS exploits and not found these obvious Android and Gmail exploits. For Google to overstate the iOS problem and completely whitewash any threat to Android and Gmail users is, in my view, criminal. Google’s denial in September of any knowledge of any attack on Android appears more of a lie when Volexity states “In mid-August, Volexity identified new malicious code on the websites of the Uyghur Academy, Turkistan Press, Turkistan TV, and Istiqlal Haber.” This was code particularly targeting Android and Gmail. I like a lot of how Google has expanded our access to knowledge, but in this instance, they stink, and they stink real bad!

Contacts are hugely personal & the notes field can be a goldmine of information, but more worrying is the fact that I can have multiple phone, email & social media contacts against individuals (personal, private, business, etc).  The more I think about it & about all the data I have in my contacts, the harder the answer becomes!  Even blocking Notes won't encourage me to share my contacts with third party apps.  Even field level security probably won't work as again, one selection does not work for all contacts!  I applaud Apple for trying, but, alas, I don't think the contact notes field is the only issue.