emacdona

For location services, I can specify that access is granted "Never" or "While Using the App". For the microphone and camera, I have no such choice -- it's all or nothing.

Based on targeted ads I get, it's pretty clear to me that many (most? all?) apps that I grant microphone access to collect and sell data about me.

Apple's "pro privacy" stance makes it seem like this would be an easy win for them: let me only grant access to microphone and camera when I'm using the app. Is there a technical reason for not doing this?

My workaround for now is manually toggling access to the microphone and camera per app, as needed. Effective, but terrible user experience.

edit: grammar