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[-] schmidtster@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Typing requires the accelerometer for some functions (like undo on Apple at least).

[-] Still@programming.dev 60 points 7 months ago

but that would be your keyboards permission not the app

[-] schmidtster@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Maybe it doesn’t pass through? Some apps need permission for camera and library, the camera would in theory give access to library like the keyboard to accelerometer as well, but that’s changed in recent months.

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Warning: speculation incoming

The camera permission probably allows the app to either access the camera directly, or use a special invocation of the camera app that only gives access to the pictures taken during the brief period it's open. This doesn't convey access to the rest of the camera library. That's why it's a separate permission.

[-] schmidtster@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Before it was entire access, now I need to select which specific photos it can access if I want to it to access them. Pictures taken with the camera through the app have auto access I believe.

Camera is always free to access now though. Not a fan of the change myself.

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No, the camera and library permissions always have been separate, it's just that Apple's official camera app integrates them. Think about it, one's hardware and the other one's basically software.

[-] schmidtster@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In the last few months you’ve had to give permission to both, so that’s not true at all. Before you never had to give permission individually.

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 31 points 7 months ago

I know I'm speaking for an older and non-Apple hill here, but why the fuck is undo mapped to a gesture?

Speaking anecdotally now, I can't remember the last time I used the undo feature on a mobile device that wasn't in an image manipulation app, and there's usually an onscreen button for that.

[-] schmidtster@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Shake your phone and undo everything you just typed? Faster than selecting and deleting or backspacing.

[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

For me personally, I use it when I'm using speech-to-text and unable to type/use the keyboard because of whatever else is in my hands, and I'm walking somewhere.

It's a very niche feature tbh, but convenient to have when I'm in the niche.

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago

Nah that's cool, I'm not wholly against the feature - in fact it's great to hear real life use cases. I hadn't even considered the accessibility element of things either, so that's cool too.

It just seems from the outset to be an over engineered answer to a question nobody asked.

Cheers for your insight though!

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

By default, it's just undo text input when you either do a special swipe or tap the back, useful in e.g. the web browser. However applications can hook into this functionality to do their own stuff when the gesture is called.

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

~~accelerometer does not require a permission to use, typing is provided by a 3rd party keyboard app.~~
nvm this is ios

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk 3 points 7 months ago

There are third party keyboards on iOS. The person you responded to is right that there is shake to undo, but this prompt has absolutely nothing to do with it.

[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

It could be an error reporting feature also.

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