Woot Copying from My Clipboard on iOS 14?

isteiger · July 9, 2020, 8:46pm

Why is Woot doing this?

modi123 · July 9, 2020, 8:49pm

Now I am curious, what do you see happening, and what are the steps so I can recreate it on my end?

ThunderThighs · July 9, 2020, 8:50pm

Hi there. Gonna need more info on this please.

Device
iOS version
Steps to reproduce

isteiger · July 9, 2020, 8:57pm

Device: iPhone 7
OS: iOS 14 Public Beta 1 (Developer Beta 2; Build 18A5319i)
Steps to Reproduce: 1. Copy Something 2. Open Woot

ThunderThighs · July 9, 2020, 9:12pm

Let me ask around to see if anyone has iOS 14 installed. Thanks!

gottaturnupthesound · July 9, 2020, 9:27pm

Thanks for letting us know that you’re seeing this. We hadn’t gotten around to testing on iOS 14 yet with everything else going on, but it was on our list.

This appears to be a bug in React Native, the app framework we use. They’re tracking the issue on GitHub. If it turns out that there is a vulnerability in React Native that’s causing this, that’ll be at the top of our priority list to fix.

The only time Woot accesses the clipboard APIs is to let a user copy a string from our app, like copying the Dealometer link.