TikTok and 53 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data

Passwords, bitcoin addresses, and anything else in clipboards are free for the taking.

The privacy invasion is the result of the apps repeatedly reading any text that happens to reside in clipboards, which computers and other devices use to store data that has been cut or copied from things like password managers and email programs. With no clear reason for doing so the apps deliberately called an iOS programming interface that retrieves text from users’ clipboards.

Source: TikTok and 53 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data | Ars Technica