53 iOS apps have found to be accessing user's clipboard data

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Security researcher Tommy Mysk told in his interview with Ars Technica that 53 iOS apps are snooping into the user's clipboard and sharing that data with nearby devices using the same Apple ID and what's worrying about that is this list of 53 apps includes popular and credible apps and games that millions of people around the world use daily on their iPhones.

Tik Tok was previously accused of accessing the user's clipboard data and they've declared that they will no longer continue to access clipboard data in the iPhones, these 53 apps and games include News and media apps like Fox News, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, social media apps like Viber, Weibo and Zoosk and popular games like Bejeweled, Fruit Ninja and PUBG Mobile.

Nobody will except a game to access your Clipboard information and they have no business to, smartphone users copy and paste a lot of private information on their phones and computers, and sometimes both the devices are synced, this private information includes, passwords, addresses and sometimes personal chat messages and also images.

No app will ask permission to access your clipboard and it is clear that if these 53 apps are collecting your clipboard data and they include popular and credible apps, many other apps might also doing the same, this only means one thing, you have to be careful, copy/pasting are basic functions and we can't avoid doing them, but clear your clipboard whenever you copied a piece of private information.

Via, Engadget.

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