I just want to educate y'all about this specific "scary"...

I just want to educate y'all about this specific "scary" warning (that you may see in the Pixelfed app)

Apple Bonjour is a feature that enables seamless connection between your Apple devices

You can safely tap "Don't Allow" without any impact, however, that may limit Handoff support and other Apple features we're planning to implement.

Regardless, you can audit our app code yourself to verify we aren't doing anything sketchy

Like 16 May at 8:09 | Open on mastodon.social

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dansup

Apple added this in 2020 as part of their overhaul of Privacy features, you can learn more here

16 May at 8:14 | Open on mastodon.social

@dansup What is handoff suppport?

16 May at 9:24 | Open on ma.fellr.net

treefit

@dansup you could try to delay that message by doing the first local network request after asking the user frist explaining what it is for.

To give more context to users, so they are not confused.

AFAIK this is not a permission like the others where you can insert a reason string in the plist.

16 May at 9:38 | Open on fosstodon.org

dansup

@treefit That’s a great idea, thanks!

16 May at 20:28 | Open on mastodon.social

TSRBerry

@dansup Do you need to request this permission before you implement anything that uses it?

16 May at 14:34 | Open on ravenation.club