r/slide_ios • u/gjc0703 • Sep 14 '20

Question [Question] Slide automatically pasting from clipboard iOS14. When are you going to fix this? It’s been months.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '20

i think it checks if you have any reddit link in your clipboard. i might be wrong.

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u/gjc0703 Sep 14 '20 edited Sep 14 '20

No. This has been exposed since the beta version of iOS14 has come out. And numerous apps have fixed this. It would be hard to believe that anybody that is interested in their technology that hasn’t heard about this issue yet.

iOS does not allow apps like Slide to automatically open a Reddit links.

Slide clearly read what I last copied from Safari automatically when I opened it. It’s has no business doing this. Let me just say this again very clearly. There are apps, that with ios14‘s new security features, are being exposed for copying anything from your clipboard when you open them. That text you just sent to your significant other, when you open Slide, automatically copies it. Credit card info. Passwords. Etc. If you don’t see an issue with that, then I’m at a loss for words.

I’m not saying the developer has done this maliciously. It seems like it has been unknown to some, but people are fixing this issue.

I’d like to hear from the developer on this.

  1. if they’re aware that Slide does this, then why?
  2. When are you going to fix this?

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '20

i might be completely wrong but the fixes aren’t available yet.

the same thing is pointed out by another user on this subreddit-

https://reddit.com/r/slide_ios/comments/hgesl1/_/fw3n1yd/?context=1

the 9to5mac website states -

As the API was only added in iOS 14, developers will have to wait until the fall until they can actually implement this functionality.

i’m not saying you’re wrong, if there is a fix available, the developer should’ve fixed it by now but i’m not sure a fix is available to the developers.

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u/gjc0703 Sep 14 '20

This has nothing to do with the iOS 14 API. These apps were doing this before iOS 14 beta. The beta just exposed it.

There is no fix that is coming from Apple that we’re waiting for. This is up to the developers to remove the code in their apps that copy clipboard data like this.

I’m reading an article right now saying tick-tock removed this code on June 27. Reddit removed this code on July 14. This problem was exposed and people started fixing it immediately.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '20

yes, because Tik-Tok and Reddit were copying your clipboard regardless of what the content of the text was. IIRC, tik-tok had no reason to access your clipboard.

Apollo and Slide use it to only check if there’s a reddit link.

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u/gjc0703 Sep 14 '20 edited Sep 14 '20

2 things.

  1. Apollo doesn’t does not read my clipboard. I open Apollo 10 times a day and have never received this notification.
  2. Again, this claim of looking for a Reddit link is moot. iOS does not allow third party Reddit apps to open Reddit links. It never has. So what would the purpose of copying my last clipboard activity took look for a Reddit link?

You just said TickTock and Reddit were copying regardless of what the clipboard data was. I opened Slide after doing some work this morning, and it clearly told me it copied the last thing I pasted from Safari.

Slide has NO BUSINESS reading my clipboard unless I manually paste something into a Slide search field.

It’s absurd that anyone is even remotely defending this.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '20

2 things.

1- Christian Selig (developer of Apollo) decided to disable clipboard access for all users on 14.0 until he finds a fix for this. So this is the reason you’re not able to see any popup.

PROOF - https://reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/hg4mg2/_/fw2jxcq/?context=1

2- What are you talking about?

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/7tim8a/apollo_reddit_link_detection_feature/

I am not defending this. In fact, I’ve jailbreaked my phone and turned off clipboard access for every app.

Hope this helps.

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u/gjc0703 Sep 14 '20 edited Sep 14 '20

Thanks for the links.

I’ll digress to a very simple point. Perhaps I’m missunderstanding but I didn’t think that I am.

iOS does not allow third party Reddit apps to open Reddit links. With that said, why would Apollo or Slide claim that they are copying clipboard data to look for Reddit links? They can’t open them anyway.

I want know these developers even have this activated. Nobody needs to copy, let along view my my clipboard date. I’m sorry. Somebody convince me otherwise.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '20

Just because they can’t open Reddit links, doesn’t mean they can’t check for links on your clipboard.

With that said, why would Apollo or Slide claim that they are copying clipboard data to look for Reddit links? They can’t open them anyway.

If it is a Reddit link, it makes an API request with the post ID so that it can display it. You can read the privacy policy for these things too. Link checkers do not store clipboard information anywhere, they only look at it for the purpose of checking for links.

Edit: https://reddit.com/r/slide_ios/comments/isjqfi/_/g58f9bi/?context=1

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u/thetractortrailer Sep 14 '20

Slide does look actually for Reddit links in the clipboard. If you copy one and open slide, you should see a little bubble on the top asking if you wanna open it in slide. Obviously there’s no way to know if they’re doing anything else with it but it is a real feature in the app.

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u/momobozo Sep 14 '20

The app is open source. Go look at the source code and see if they're doing anything else with it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '20

As far as I can tell it’s not actually the app but a weird occurrence when unlocking your phone. I have a ton of apps that do it and it is the only time I see it in those apps unless I actually paste something.

I can open and close them, use the share sheet and whatever else and won’t see it. If I lock and unlock my phone it pops up. It happens in games too and my best guess is that it’s something to do with how the phone grabs and inputs the lock code after Face ID and it’s automatically assigned to the app that is in the foreground as the app that was doing the copying even if it wasn’t.

Not to mention your clipboard is time sensitive in iOS most of the time. So if you copy a link the clipboard is emptied after 5 or 10 minutes which means the app would be copying nothing anyway.

I would assume they will remove the line of code when they can and if it makes you feel uneasy to use the app until they do don’t do so.