Pokemon GO update fixes Google permissions problem
If you’ve been swept up in the cray Pokemon GO trend, but have been concerned about reports that by doing so, you’ve given Google all kinds of permissions to access information on your iPhone, concern no longer!
Reports have been coming out loud and clear all over the place that by playing Pokemon GO on your iPhone, you’ve given Google ‘full access’ and control of your email, search history, Google Drive documents, etc, etc.
Apparently, this was a mistake.
The game’s developer – Niantic Labs, issued a statement to the good guys over at Mashable –
“We recently discovered that the Pokemon Go account creation process on iOS erroneously requests full access permission for the user’s Google account. However, Pokemon Go only accesses basic Google profile information (specifically, your User ID and email address) and no other Google account information is or has been accessed or collected.”
And – they’ve apparently fixed it.
“Once we became aware of this error, we began working on a client-side fix to request permission for only basic Google profile information, in line with the data that we actually access, Google has verified that no other information has been received or accessed by Pokemon Go or Niantic. Google will soon reduce Pokemon Go’s permission to only the basic profile data that Pokemon Go needs, and users do not need to take any actions themselves.”
Now, you can update to version 1.0.1 of Pokémon Go for iOS, which will bring you improved stability, crash fixes, and a improvements on Google account permissions.
The update is now live in the App Store.
You know what works great for catching Pokemon? A new iPhone.
Uncategorized | iPhone-Antidote | 
July 12, 2016 7:12 pm
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