# PUBG Mobile, Truecaller and others found snooping on your iPhone clipboard data | Tech News (HT Tech) > 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. # PUBG Mobile, Truecaller and others found snooping on your iPhone clipboard data ## 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. 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(Pixabay) ![Author Photo](https://images.hindustantimes.com/tech/static/revamp/images/png/HTTech-new-circle-logo.png) ### By HT TECH 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. Also read click here. 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 Catch all the Latest Tech News, Mobile News, Laptop News, Gaming news, Wearables News , How To News, also keep up with us on Whatsapp channel,Twitter, Facebook, Google News, and Instagram. 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