About Private Access in iPhone Album Permissions
by Poster
May 23, 2025
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I found that Alipay's photo album permission became this form called "private access"
It probably means that it is similar to Hongmeng. Every time you want to access a photo, only the photo you select next will be accessed by the app (different from "restricted access")
I remember two years ago I also found that there is this kind of photo album permission for the app, which means that this function actually existed two years ago
But I found that many other apps can't actively turn on this option to access the photo album privately
The main reason is to protect the privacy of the photo album. This private access is very useful but I cannot actively turn it on or off. The previous "restricted access" is too difficult to use
Does anyone who develops Apple apps tell me that this private access is a icing on the cake photo album privacy protection option that Apple does not mandate, but it provides?
Do other privacy options such as contacts have this function
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Anonymous8449 May 23, 2025I have not changed here If I remember correctly, this private access seems to be for Safari because different web pages cannot share a large library And there is no public document that provide an interface to support I suspect you are a bug...
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Anonymous4633 May 23, 2025I still have restricted access here. How did I get this out?
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Poster May 23, 2025@ Anonymous4633 I don't know, if I have to say it, maybe I uninstalled Alipay and reinstalled 😂
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Anonymous3106 May 23, 2025These are two different APIs. PHPhotoLibrary requires advance authorization, and the app can access all photos in the album. Starting from iOS 14, restricted access has been added to allow users to select the photos that the app can access. Private access is PHPickerViewController, which does not require prior authorization. It is an album selector that the system displays on the app. The system will only give the app photos after the user selects them from this pop-up window. Of course, this means that you can't make the app use another API yourself, and the developer needs to do it. Apple doesn't mandate which app to use. I don't remember very much. It seems that the Alipay Taobao Xianyu family app can obtain pictures by itself if you have permission. If you don't have permission, use PHPickerViewController to select them using the system interface. Contacts have similar API distinctions. CNContactStore allows the app to request access to all contacts. CNContactPickerViewController Ask the system to display the selector, and the app can only access the contacts selected by the user.
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Anonymous4633 May 23, 2025@ Poster ok reappeared, and it is consistent with what the 4th floor said. If the App has never applied for album permission and directly uses PHPickerViewController to obtain pictures, the settings display private access. If the App has applied for album permission, it is restricted access in the settings. We haven't changed because we haven't uninstalled the App, Alipay has already applied for permissions
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Anonymous10674 May 23, 2025@ Anonymous3106 # 4 I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Xianyu, but I still don't use the PHPickerViewController function. Then I tried turning off the album permissions again, but still not using PHPickerViewController, but prompted me to turn on the permissions
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Anonymous10891 May 24, 2025I just don't know how to reset the album access permissions of some apps, it seems that reinstalling the APP is invalid
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Poster May 24, 2025@ Anonymous10891 Settings-General-Restore location and privacy, but the privacy permissions of almost all apps are reset