This isn’t a conspiracy, though Apple could probably come up with a better way of describing the permission, as we suggested earlier.
despite the app not having permission to access their photos.Īs we reported earlier, the latter is actually allowed behavior in iOS - which gives users the power to choose to block an app from full camera roll access but select individual photos to upload if they so wish. The tl dr here is that concerns had been raised that FaceApp, a Russian startup, uploads users’ photos to the cloud - without making it clear to them that processing is not going on locally on their device.Īnother issue raised by FaceApp users was that the iOS app appears to be overriding settings if a user had denied access to their camera roll, after people reported they could still select and upload a photo - i.e. We’ve pasted the company’s full statement at the bottom of this post. FaceApp, the AI-powered selfie-editing app that’s been having another viral moment of late, has now responded to a privacy controversy that we covered earlier here.
