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Typing requires the accelerometer for some functions (like undo on Apple at least).
but that would be your keyboards permission not the app
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
The reason they made it a wanking gesture is in case you’re texting your ex while wanking with your phone in your hand.
The original idea was to undo all the texts you’d already sent. Unfortunately, due to unforeseen constraints on the nature of spacetime, Apple was unable to deliver on their text-message-undo promises, and went for typing-undo instead.
Then they never changed the gesture, and it’s still wankery to this day! Just a little bit of tech history for you there.
Shake your phone and undo everything you just typed? Faster than selecting and deleting or backspacing.
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.
accelerometer does not require a permission to use, typing is provided by a 3rd party keyboard app.
nvm this is iosThere 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.
It could be an error reporting feature also.