The new features of iOS 15 are really meritorious. Some netizens made different discoveries after opening the “Record App Activity” of the new system.According to this new privacy feature of iOS 15, WeChat reads the user’s photo album several times in the background without the user actively activating the App, and the time for each reading varies from 40 seconds to 1 minute.
Of course, this is not a behavior unique to WeChat. Some netizens found out in the same way that many domestic apps such as QQ also have such behavior, that is, frequently reading user photo albums.
However, WeChat has responded that the iOS system provides App developers with the standard ability to notify the album update. When the album content is updated, the App will be notified to remind the App that it can prepare in advance, and the preparation behavior of the App will be recorded as a reading system. Photo album.
After the user authorizes the premise that WeChat can read the “system album permissions”, in order to facilitate users to quickly post pictures when they press “+” in WeChat chat, WeChat uses this system capability to make the user experience of sending pictures faster and smoother.
WeChat emphasized that the above actions are only performed locally on the mobile phone. “In the latest version, we will cancel the use of the system’s capabilities and optimize the function of quick image posting.”
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