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Google photos on ios is literally a hostage situation. Remove key functionalities like copying an image or editing an image unless you give them full unrestricted access to your entire photo library. (The holy grail of surveillance capitalism data). Data extortion masquerading as a service.
Does iOS have per file permissions? I don't think you can blame Google for something the OS can't do.
Yes iOS allows you to tell an app it can only access select photos but idk how google photos works since the built in one is good enough for me. Wouldn’t put it past google to say "all or nothing" tho.
Eh, they provide that level of file access control on their own devices as well. Feels more plausible to me that they just don't put that much development effort into their iOS app.
Putting any significant amount of work into making a photo library management app work with "not the library" on a platform that your software doesn't see a lot of usage on to appeal to a subset of users who want that is the exact sort of thing product managers skip because it's just not a problem to enough people.