This should be a non-issue if you use Apple’s privacy settings to limit Facebook to only have access to the photos you want to use.

I’d highly recommend never granting any app full access to your photos.

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gessha 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Apple should improve the UI of this photo selection because it’s very cumbersome to scroll and select the same photos twice.

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Clent 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Agreed. The feature set is in desperate need of the search option both on approved photos and when attempting to approve additional photos. Very often I have to go into the photos app, find the photo, make a mental record of approximately where it is in history and scroll scroll scroll. Obnoxious and cumbersome.

	▲	jkubicek 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		What I really want is to create a special photo album for (Facebook/Instagram/Slack/etc.) and have it automatically gain access to whatever photos I put in there.

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subarctic 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I think they have because with chatgpt you click the photo icon and it uses the system photo picker to pick a photo. I guess Meta deliberately isn't implementing that

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loumf 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You should do this for apps even if you trust them.

One issue with permissions is that they apply to the entire app, including any third-party dependencies. Lots of apps use libraries given to them by advertising services -- they notoriously exploit permissions given to the app.

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lloydatkinson 5 days ago | parent [-]

WhatsApp used to (still might) default to saving all photos from any chat to your phone. This led to some very surprising and unwanted photos being saved to my iPhone gallery. What a stupid idea.

	▲	kergonath 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think it’s off by default and you can activate it separately for each discussion.

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const_cast 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The problem is people have to actually do this, and it's cumbersome.

The solution is just straight up banning apps from the app store which request full photos permissions but only need a picker.

Whatsapp only needs a picker, it's not Google photos. Just make that part of the developer terms and start banning low hanging fruit and the apps will confirm in no time.

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afarah1 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Android also has limited photos access nowadays.

	▲	jcomis 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		maybe they changed it, but last time I checked I could not upload on instagram on Android with limited access. It required full access, plus camera/microphone in order to post.

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abcd_f 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That's on newer iOS versions and, by extension, on newer Apple devices only though.

	▲	rimunroe 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Photo library permissions have been around since iOS 14. As long as you have an iPhone made in the last ten years you should be able to use it.
	▲	bigDinosaur 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Apparently this functionality was released in iOS 14, which was supported by the iPhone 6S, released in 2015, so any phone in the past 10 years should have support for it. That seems reasonable enough.