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No CarPlay Ultra? Apple is doomed.

welshdog said:

Wonder how this behaves with Handoff? I don't keep sensitive passwords on my phone and thus sometimes use Handoff Copy from my Mac password manager to get a password over to the iPhone. Is Clipboard History going to hang on to these passwords until they are pushed out of the buffer? I would imagine there will be a keyboard shortcut to clear the buffer. Also, the option of turning this feature off might be nice.

At the risk of thread jack, there are a *lot* of UI and OS features i'd really like to turn off, perhaps selectively (AI I'm looking at you...) I find that I see these announcements for updates and upgrades, and think "oh, that's kinda cool" and then when I actually try it, it really isn't. I admit, maybe I'm not using my Apple devices like the machines the developers think. I just want simple, intuitive, and predictable. For example, this clipboard thingy has been 30 years in the making. When it arrives in September, my guess is I will look at it, and it won't be like what i've been using for...30 years. I'd like to turn it off. Will I be able to and just stick with the nice 3rd party one? YMMV.

And oh, I've never been able to actually use Spotlight. Yes, I guess I'm a dumbass, but it doesn't work for me and my needs at all. YMMV. Go to the finder, get a new window, do a search in a search bar. Found. Done. Bet that's been around for 30 years too.

How about a big button on the UI that erases all those search histories, clipboards, caches, cookies, hidden stuff. Put *that* in the UI, Apple.

Please tell me that this isn't because Apple wants to ram (!) AI down our collective throats. Could we please just have non-AI OS support for these machines?

brighter said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

nickmccally said:

Are you guys aware of Microsoft Clarity and similar products that are used on all websites?

Of course.

Knowing where a reader clicks on a webpage is not the same as everything on a screen being recorded, or all keystrokes captured while the app is open.

What other apps are recording my interactions and haven't asked my permission?

There is a permission setting for "Screen Recording" in macOS, but not one in iOS? WTF? How could Apple allow this gaping loophole in Privacy & Security?

T-Mobile's implementation without overt permission is a confidence-killer for trusting Apple's claims of privacy protections.

Kinda curious: this spyware arrived on iPhones (apparently) as an update to an existing app. I always assumed Apple vetted "updates" the same way - they reviewed them with the same standards as a new submission. Maybe not? Or if they were supposed to, it looks like someone somewhere rather high on totem pole is about to get brutalized. This is an app from a very large international corporation known to collect information, sell it for their benefit, and not protect it in accordance with law or even actual common professional standards. 

This all screams of Apple's claims of "privacy built in" being total one hundred complete bullshit. 

9secondkox2 said:

Dang. Great heads-up article. 

this kind of thing needs a law to address it.

hahaha. good one.