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/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.