IME giving it "limited access" works well; you can save anything without issue.

What pisses me off, though, is that I didn't find a way to give a contact a name without allowing it access to the phone's contacts.

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skylurk 5 days ago | parent [-]

Tested it, and yes, when I increase the access from "Add Photos Only" to "Limited Access" I can add photos again.

But now Whatsapp retains access to all the photos I added unless I go into settings and revoke access to those photos. Creepy.

And yeah the contacts thing also pisses me off. They know what they are doing.

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vladvasiliu 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

> But now Whatsapp retains access to all the photos I added unless I go into settings and revoke access to those photos. Creepy.

I think this is good enough. If you consider they do shady stuff with your pictures, you might as well consider that they hold on to anything they get their hands on right away.

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mckn1ght 5 days ago | parent [-]

I think you meant to say you don’t think this is good enough? And I’d second that.

	▲	vladvasiliu 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		No, I do think it's good enough. My idea is that if WhatsApp can't be trusted, once it gets access to any file, it will hold on to it. So revoking access to something it already has won't accomplish all that much, since I've already figured that I can share that file with them.

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gruez 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>But now Whatsapp retains access to all the photos I added unless I go into settings and revoke access to those photos. Creepy.

Not really, given whatsapp could be theoretically keeping a local copy and the operating system can't really do anything about it. It would also be a pretty weird case to code. Imagine writing an app where if you tried to save a file, you couldn't immediately access it afterwards.

	▲	skylurk 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Imagine writing an app where if you tried to save a file, you couldn't immediately access it afterwards. It works fine in other apps such as Signal and even Teams. I don't really want Moxie or MSFT to have persistent access to any part of my personal photo album either, no matter how good they say they'll be.