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T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. (www.droid-life.com)
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[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

That would be a pretty big security hole in iOS if that was allowed, but it isn’t. Notification and other UI elements are rendered on top of the underlying app, which does not have access to or cannot see the full screen’s canvas. We can see practical implementations of this “snapshot” test feature in code:

https://github.com/uber/ios-snapshot-test-case