But what is clipboard spying?
Why haven't we heard of this before?
Should we be worried?

It was the first time in March that the Misk website raised the issue of spy on a clipboard. The article, published by Misk, explained how popular apps on iOS 13 read their clipboard information without the user's knowledge and permission. These softwares were a number of social media, games and news agencies, among which are large letters such as TikTok, New York Times, Weibo, CNBC and a number of other softwares.


According to recent research, there are softwares that can access clipboard information.
When you copy and paste something on iOS, between these two steps, the content copied to the clipboard remains.
Software installed on iOS and iPadOS has unlimited access to the content of the main iClover clipboard, and the more worrying thing is that the Universal Clipboard iOS service allows you to attach clipboard content to different devices.

As soon as the issue was raised, alarm bells rang. While clipboard information is usually simple and harmless, such as adding it to your shopping list or part of an article, it can include important information such as password, digital currency private key, address, date of birth, bank account information and even more. Be another.

Despite the many concerns about the nature of the issue, little attention has been paid to it, and this issue has not been addressed in future versions of iOS.

This continued until two weeks ago, when iOS 14 was unveiled at the WWDC conference, where a new tool was used to combat spy on the clipboard. According to Apple's announcement, a notification is sent to the user every time the clipboard information is read by the program.
Katie Skinner, a software engineer at Apple, said in an interview that this was because users were aware of what was happening to their information.

Bigger things started right after Apple's announcement. After installing the beta version, users were faced with a large number of notifications on their phones. It was immediately clear that this was much broader than previously thought; Both in terms of the number of softwares in which they were involved and in terms of the number of times this happened.

This provoked many reactions.
Jeremy Burge, a wave historian who is known as "King of the Waves," tweeted about the bug and wrote that every time the phone screen hits, the clipboard information is stored in the TikTok software.

Upon further investigation, it was determined that a tick after two or three strokes would read the information on the clipboard once.

Twitter soon became full of users claiming that their clipboard information was being read by some software. Tik Tok, Fantastic, Reddit, and more recently LinkedIn are some of the programs that many Twitter users have mentioned.


There are several reasons why these softwares do this. It is also technically possible to check the software code and user interface of why the software developers intentionally or inadvertently read user clipboard information.
The problem is that it is difficult to separate programs that read this information for a logical reason from those that do so for wrong or unreasonable reasons.
In addition, some software may be allowed to read this information in some cases; But not always.
Such software may do so in cases where it is not allowed to store information, and may hide and store information among a number of authorized items.

For example, Tik Tak says that this feature was an anti-spam action and was designed to prevent spam in the comments section.
In the new update, TikTak has already removed this feature; But critics point out that this has been a bad idea as an initiative to counter Spam, and it's strange that a company worth billions of dollars has failed to hire developers to solve Spam's problem in a more accurate way.


Apple has provided a tool with which users can specify what software should not access the content of the clipboard.
This is an internal feature in iOS that can be used in non-destructive software.

As mentioned, in recent weeks, more attention has been paid to this problem by users and developers.
So if you're using the beta version of iOS 14, or you're planning to use the final version in the near future, and you've noticed that the app reads your clipboard information information, here are a few questions:

*What software do I use?
*Is the information I have copied related to what I am currently doing?
*Does it make sense for my software to read my information in this particular case?
*Is there anything wrong with reading my information by this software?

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