Skip & Stop “Select More Photos” & “Keep Current Selection” on iPhone iOS 17

How to Skip & Stop "Select More Photos" & "Keep Current Selection" in iOS on iPhone, iPad: How to Control Photo Privacy on iPhone

Skip or Turn off the App popup if you want to Access Your Photos after iOS Update. With Options “Select More Photos” & “Keep Current Selection” is full-fledged with Privacy settings, giving control to the end-users and exposing the applications that are storing the private data to date. If you haven’t updated the iPhone to the latest iOS, it’s high time to safely keep the iPhone with Apple’s privacy features. Apple announced the Photos Privacy to several apps that exchange images from the Photos App of iPhone; if you find the application unsafe or don’t need to send photos, then simply revoke permissions and set it to None.

Furthermore, apps like WhatsApp and TikTok need crucial attention; Apple’s other privacy feature recently caught TikTok spying on users’ clipboard data. So, it might help you secure your Photos and iPhone, too. It is also recommended to give only permissions when needed; otherwise, retract the app permissions from the iPhone Settings App.

How to Change Photo Privacy on iPhone

Whenever you Find or Upload photo on your iPhone apps, Apps will ask to Select More photos.. and Keep Current Selection Option popup on-screen, Let’s Skip and Allow all photos by default for selected app, You can see the Example for the Instagram app, – Instagram Would Like to Access Your Photos. This lets you share photos from your Library and save photos to Your camera roll.

Skip Select More Photos For All Apps while Select Photos on iPhone Camera Roll

I’m showing you by taking WhatsApp as an example; the same steps can be used to control the photos app privacy on any application. Instead of using WhatsApp, you can use any application. Also, this process can be done on an individual app basis.

1. Open the Settings App on the iOS device.
2. Scroll the screen Instagram App.

Open settings app tap instagram app on iPhone

3. Tap the Photos option.
4. Then choose your preference, Full Access, Limited Access, or None.

Click Photos tap on none, limited access , full access on iPhone

Limited Access: This option lets you customize lists of photos that can be accessed from WhatsApp. Tap on Edit Selected Photos at the bottom, and choose the images.

Check limited access select Photos tap done then edit selected Photos on iPhone

Full Access: This setting will give WhatsApp entire access to the photos app.

Click on full access tap Allow Full Access on iPhone

None: WhatsApp can’t access any of the photos if you set it to None. When None is selected, WhatsApp will display a message pop-up stating, “WhatsApp does not have access to your photos or videos. To enable access, tap Settings and turn on Photos”.

Check none on iPhone

Our Photos and Videos are not the property of third-party applications, so we should protect them as much as possible; this privacy feature will not allow any app to fetch the photos unless you give them authority.

How to Change Photo Privacy on Mac

  1. Click on the Apple Logo on your Mac. From the Prompted Menu, Select System Settings.
Click on Apple logo Select System Settings on Mac
  1. Click on Privacy & Security at the Left Pane. Next, Select Photos from the Right Pane.
Click on Privacy & Security Select Photos on Mac
  1. Turn off access to your photos for the Specific App.
Turn off access to your photos of App on Mac
  1. If Turned on access to your photos for the Specific App. Then, Select the Options Button to give Full Access to your Photos.
Enable Access to your photos of App Click on Options on Mac
  1. From the Prompted Menu, Choose Full Photo Library Access to give full access to your entire photos. Then, Click Done.
Choose Full Photo Library access Click Done on Mac
  1. If you want to Choose Limited Access to Access only Specific Photos. Next, Click Done.
Choose Limited Access Click Done on Mac

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Karly Wood

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