<aside> ‼️ This article comes from a very classic question on Stack: 「Can an iOS app that has access to Photos get all my photos?」. In this article, we can learn how apps on your iPhone can secretly access your photos, contacts, microphone and other data without your knowledge, as well as the potential harm.
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There are usually some pornographic and gambling apps disguised as simple tools, education, and even for children on the App Store. In addition to providing pornographic and gambling content, these apps may also use methods similar to phishing websites to apply for photo albums, Microphone, location, address book and other permissions. Once they gain access, they can secretly upload your private information to their servers without your noticing, thereby achieving their illegal purposes. This is a very horrific behavior. Although the App Store review team is becoming more and more strict in review, there are still some fish that slip through the net.
Jake: Can a developer collect my photos that I edited and saved in my iPhone album?
One of the function of the an app I am using is to edit photos and save them to my iPhone's album. In this case, can the developer collect my edited photos?
I did not upload any photos, nor did I share them with anybody.
Also, there is no mention of collecting user's content in the privacy policy of the said app.
Can anyone help me with this?
Yes, if you give the application access to your photos and the application has network access, the photos can be taken from your iPhone.
Only use apps you trust