iOS 13 bug grants third-party keyboards full access to iPhones

I know your title is from the title of the article, but it&#x27;s pretty misleading.<p>Just to clear things up, it seems like the bug grants the &quot;Full Access&quot; permission to 3rd party keyboards which allows them to make network requests (phone home) based on what you are typing while you have that specific keyboard opened. It doesn&#x27;t grant the keyboards full access to anything on your iPhone, which is what the title makes it sound like.<p>edit: Here is a link to the Apple support article, which is a little clearer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT210613" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;HT210613</a>

The stock iOS 13 keyboard has swipe now, which means that I don’t need a third party keyboard anymore, which I assume was sending everything I typed to some server for advertising purposes.

Thankfully, I was finally able to uninstall gboard (google&#x27;s swipe keyboard). Don&#x27;t know why it took Apple so long to implement swipe keyboard feature.

I will admit to not actually looking at how third-party keyboards are implemented (specifically, how are security risks mitigated), but have always stayed away from them on instinct. For me, the potential value just doesn&#x27;t outweigh risk.

Can anyone recommend some great third-party keyboards that do not depend on the &quot;full access&quot; ability to phone home?

First we have a security issue in iOS 13.0 — a lock screen bypass vulnerability which isn’t easy to exploit — that should’ve been fixed before mass release. But Apple wanted iOS 13 to be out for all iOS users for the launch of the new iPhones 11. So we get iOS 13.1 in a week (Sep 24) from iOS 13.0.<p>Now we find that a much more severe issue with unexpectedly granting third party keyboards Full Access is yet to be fixed. Shouldn’t this issue take higher priority (not implying that the same teams work on all security issues)? This seems like a betrayal of trust. Nobody would expect a third party keyboard to get Full Access and transmit all keystrokes over the network unless they granted that permission.<p>Is Apple now planning to release iOS 13.1.1 or iOS 13.2 by September 30 with the fix for this and some more fixes for stability?<p>It seems like the beta testing cycle still going on for iOS 13.0.<p>Apple has focused on better performance over the last two years and shown good results (older devices don’t slow down as much with newer iOS releases as in the distant past), but stability and security both seem to have taken a hit within Apple’s technical abilities and processes, as is evident from the revelations, from Google’s Project Zero and others, in the last few months or so.