Do you ever wonder if iPhone apps can access other apps? The answer is yes, but with certain restrictions. Sandboxing is a security measure that prevents applications from accessing other applications, their data, or their files. This means that an application only has access to its own folder (sandbox). You can control which third-party applications have access to information in Contacts, Photos, Calendar and other applications.
Not all iPhone apps need access to your photos and contacts. You can also customize which apps can access your location data. This symbiotic relationship allows the application to collect data from users of the social media account, while allowing the social media service to collect data from the application. According to a report, four percent of Android apps and three percent of iOS apps that requested risky permissions didn't have any privacy policies.
For example, a messaging application can request access to your contacts to find friends who are using the same application. Another possibility is to require application developers to accurately disclose what data on the clipboard is being accessed and what the application does with it. The first was the Android horoscope application “Zodiac Signs 101 — 12 Zodiac Signs & Astrology”, which has been downloaded more than 1 million times. Instead of considering these permissions as a given, users should be more careful about granting them, wondering if the application really needs this permission and if they are comfortable granting it to this particular application.
In the event that the iPhone or iPad use the same Apple ID as other Apple devices and are approximately 10 feet away from each other, they all share a universal clipboard, which means that the content can be copied from the application on one device and pasted into an application running on another device. This type of tracking is popular among applications such as Facebook and Google, which use it to collect data for advertising purposes and applies to tracking outside the company's own applications. You can also lock some applications completely on this screen, by enabling a password that will be needed to unlock the application. To sum up, iPhone apps can access other apps but with certain restrictions in place.
It's important to be aware of what permissions you're granting when downloading an app and make sure you're comfortable with it.
