Facebooks iOS app might be opening the camera in the background without your knowledge
Facebooks iOS app appears to be activating the camera in the background of the app in some situations without a users knowledge.
It was also reported that when you view a photo on the app and just barely drag it down, its possible to see an active camera viewfinder on the left side of the screen, as shown in a tweet by web designer Joshua Maddux:
Maddux says he could reproduce the issue across five different iPhones, which were all apparently running iOS 13.2.2, but he reportedly couldnt reproduce it on iPhones running iOS 12.
Regardless of whats going on with either of these issues, unexpectedly seeing a camera viewfinder in an app is never a good thing.
And as you wait for a potential fix to roll out, you might want to revoke the Facebook apps camera access, just to be safe.
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