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iOS: Problems with Lockdown Mode (self.voyagerapp)

submitted 6 months ago by Brimstone to c/voyagerapp

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Voyager can't open posts or display comments with it enabled, it gets stuck. Also, some user settings aren't "remembered". Any chance of a future fix to correct these problems? Thanks, I enjoy the app very much aside from these issues.

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[–] Ciderpunk 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I’m fairly certain what you’re experiencing is just how lockdown mode works. It even specifically states in the menu that it’s gonna break some stuff because certain features that apps might need to function are completely disabled. The fix is “don’t use lockdown mode” because you simply cannot work around entire critical feature sets being unavailable on a system level.

To be honest, you probably shouldn’t be using lockdown mode if apps behaving weird is going to bother you. It’s an extreme measure and it says so right when you enable it, it’s not meant for casual use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

While it’s true that lockdown mode can break things, it’s likely there is something that can be fixed here - a setting or a particular API, perhaps. After all, the app is still in development and these don’t seem like intended effects of lockdown mode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I tend to agree with this as other Lemmy apps work just fine with iOS lockdown mode such as mlem and memmy.

[–] Brimstone -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What you say its true, but apps having real problems with lockdown mode are few and far between. Usually cosmetic issues and that's it.

Apple has been dropping the ball on privacy with the latest iOS releases. I thought that 14 had decent privacy. But from 15 onward, YouTube is recommending videos out of your face to face, voice, offline conversations - just like Android does, and I'm pretty selfish with app permissions already. So I enable lockdown mode, not just to harden my phone safety. But also to help a little bit in that regard.

[–] TORFdot0 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

YouTube is not using your microphone to listen to your conversations to show you ads. They don’t need to, their tracking on the web is pervasive enough without people making up fake privacy concerns. In fact, you can easily disable the mic permission.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So sad to see the pervasive misunderstanding of ad targeting :(

iOS doesn’t even allow devices access to camera/mic unless the permissions have been granted; and background process barely allows applications any time to do anything, there’s just no way for it to listen to the users in background and upload that data elsewhere.

[–] Brimstone -4 points 6 months ago

There's no way, you say. Yet that kind of targeted ads is precisely what happens, that's what many users are experiencing with their phones, regardless of their microphone permissions. Big tech is being profoundly dishonest about their privacy with users, and don't seem to stick with their own privacy legal terms. But what I'm talking about is the browser version of YouTube. not even the app.