UPDATE (Statement from Truecaller): "It was recently brought to our attention that iOS 14 highlights that Truecaller is accessing the device clipboard.We wish to clarify that this is by design. Truecaller accesses the clipboard to let you copy a number from a website, email, SMS or your call log and paste into Truecaller to find out who's number it is.We look at the clipboard only on the device (nothing is sent to our servers), and if we don’t find a phone number in the clipboard data, we fully discard the clipboard data. If we do find a phone number, we first ask the user if they want to search for this number on Truecaller and only then is a search carried out. Importantly, it's just the phone number that we look at, nothing else. It's also important to note, this is a very valuable feature for our users.
Original: A couple of days ago a popular social media app called TikTok came in the headlines for its suspicious behaviour of snooping on the iPhone’s clipboard. While the company is yet to fix this, a couple of researchers have found additional 53 iOS apps that work in a similar fashion.
As reported by Ars Technica, these 53 apps discovered by researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk back in March have still not stopped snooping on the iOS device’s clipboards. It is said that these apps peek on the handset’s saved clipboard, which can have sensitive data like IDs and passwords, everytime when they are opened or closed.
The list not just includes some shady apps that you haven’t heard before but some popular apps as well, some of them being apps that you might be using every day. These are said to share the data found in the clipboard with the other nearby device using the same Apple ID.
Also reported is that, as soon as the list was made live in March, 10% Happier: Meditation and Hotel Tonight promised to remove this behaviour. TikTok promised the same but has not fixed it yet.
Here are the App names and the Bundle IDs.
News:
ABC News — com.abcnews.ABCNews
Al Jazeera English — ajenglishiphone
CBC News — ca.cbc.CBCNews
CBS News — com.H443NM7F8H.CBSNews
CNBC — com.nbcuni.cnbc.cnbcrtipad
Fox News — com.foxnews.foxnews
News Break — com.particlenews.newsbreak
New York Times — com.nytimes.NYTimes
NPR — org.npr.nprnews
ntv Nachrichten — de.n-tv.n-tvmobil
Reuters — com.thomsonreuters.Reuters
Russia Today — com.rt.RTNewsEnglish
Stern Nachrichten — de.grunerundjahr.sternneu
The Economist — com.economist.lamarr
The Huffington Post — com.huffingtonpost.HuffingtonPost
The Wall Street Journal — com.dowjones.WSJ.ipad
Vice News — com.vice.news.VICE-News
Games:
8 Ball Pool — com.miniclip.8ballpoolmult
AMAZE!!! — com.amaze.game
Bejeweled — com.ea.ios.bejeweledskies
Block Puzzle —Game.BlockPuzzle
Classic Bejeweled — com.popcap.ios.Bej3
Classic Bejeweled HD —com.popcap.ios.Bej3HD
FlipTheGun — com.playgendary.flipgun
Fruit Ninja — com.halfbrick.FruitNinjaLite
Golfmasters — com.playgendary.sportmasterstwo
Letter Soup — com.candywriter.apollo7
Love Nikki — com.elex.nikki
My Emma — com.crazylabs.myemma
Plants vs. Zombies Heroes — com.ea.ios.pvzheroes
Pooking – Billiards City — com.pool.club.billiards.city
PUBG Mobile — com.tencent.ig
Tomb of the Mask — com.happymagenta.fromcore
Tomb of the Mask: Color — com.happymagenta.totm2
Total Party Kill — com.adventureislands.totalpartykill
Watermarbling — com.hydro.dipping
Social Networking:
TikTok — com.zhiliaoapp.musically
ToTalk — totalk.gofeiyu.com
Tok — com.SimpleDate.Tok
Truecaller — com.truesoftware.TrueCallerOther
Viber — com.viber
Weibo — com.sina.weibo
Zoosk — com.zoosk.Zoosk
Other:
10% Happier: Meditation — com.changecollective.tenpercenthappier
5-0 Radio Police Scanner — com.smartestapple.50radiofree
Accuweather — com.yourcompany.TestWithCustomTabs
AliExpress Shopping App — com.alibaba.iAliexpress
Bed Bath & Beyond — com.digby.bedbathbeyond
Dazn — com.dazn.theApp
Hotels.com — com.hotels.HotelsNearMe
Hotel Tonight — com.hoteltonight.prod
Overstock — com.overstock.app
Pigment – Adult Coloring Book — com.pixite.pigment
Recolor Coloring Book to Color — com.sumoing.ReColor
Sky Ticket — de.sky.skyonline
The Weather Network — com.theweathernetwork.weathereyeiphone
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