Privacy Issue may occur

Krause also describes that these apps may create privacy issues such as if a target iOS user use the device for a reason in the bathroom, and the app adds such code, it will be possible that a user may get monitored in an inappropriate compromising position.

It is obvious that users would not like to grant a permission to the iOS camera, Krause alarm number of users will already have provided the access to their photos, videos, gallery and the camera of their device to social networking apps and websites such as Facebook, Tinder, Instagram, Whatsapp and plenty of others social media platforms that possibly updated with malicious code.

Krause also suggested to prevent such type of unwilling monitoring of the camera by using the mobile covers that hide the camera properly, the researchers also agreed with this suggestion and think it would be the safest idea. Furthermore, it is also stated that users to revoke camera permission to all apps and to use the built-in camera app, that uses the image picker of every single app to choose and then select the photos to publish or to use copy-paste to run the image to the application.

The researchers have described the issue to the Apple, but on another hand also suggested some major key points to prevent the possible issues in long term such as privacy. They also suggest that apps need to provide permissions on the temporary basis rather than the permanent ones to a camera and to put an icon or symbol that force a status bar to be seen when any application getting access into the target iOS user camera.

Krause further suggested that on the hardware side adding an LED to the camera modules on both of the sides that would not keep off by sandboxed apps.