WhatsApp has a similar issue. You can't share just one photo, you have to give it access to all photos.

This isn't the case for me on Android anyway. You can turn off access for media & photos in settings, and then yes, it nags you to enable it, but there's still two ways to send photos:

* either share from an outside app, e.g. the gallery, choose "share", choose "whatsapp". This gives it access only to the photo you shared from the other app.

* and in Android's settings you can give Whatsapp access to a subset of photos, then it works normally on only that subset. Then you can always add more from outside that set, by pressing the paperclip icon when you write the message, there you see the "gallery option", then you see the limited subset of photos you gave access to, at the bottom right you have a folder picker icon which opens the system's gallery picker view (google photos in my case), where you can see all photos, and it can then access that photo too.

* if you chose no access to media at all, but if whatsapp has camera access, click on the paperclip icon in the message box, then, "camera", then the "gallery" icon, there you get a screen prompting for gallery access, but on the bottom right it has the same folder icon that gives access to the system photo picker, which again will only allow access to the photo you pick there.

The first two cases are pretty low-friction.

Hm, at least on iPhone I used to be able to allow only some photos.

> You can't share just one photo, you have to give it access to all photos

Works for me on an alternate Android OS without photos permission, but it's buggy (possibly on purpose) and often requires doing the sharing intent action twice.

WhatsApp only has "Network", "Notifications" and "Sensors" permission on my phone