Comment by Jtarii
7 hours ago
This just reinforces the notion that apple is the one that actually owns the phone and they generously let you use it.
Just do a security alert pop up "You are screenshotting potentially sensitive information, are you sure you want to continue".
Unfortunately “are you sure?” checks simply don't work, too many people are trained to just click yes/OK to close the message and get back to what they were trying to do.
Well, it sounds like those people are just too stupid to own phones at all then.
And worst of all, it doesn't matter if you are one of those people or not, for some reason all software you get to use must be designed for the lowest common denominator.
"are you sure" checks work if you force deliberate effort on the part of the user.
Imagine having to type "I want to get hacked" on a keyboard layout which randomizes with every character.
The number of times I've seen people blow though prompts which directly refer to the issue they are coming to me about... SMH
Trained by the many more prompts that are irrelevant in practice, and merely stand between a person and the task they're trying to accomplish.
It's not like computers give people a good reason to read the error popups. 90% of them these days are just "oops, computer pooped itself, a well trained army of monkeys is on its way to clean it up; try again later <tinyprint>0xbunchofbullshit-hexadecimal-uuids-for-vendor-telemetry</tinyprint> ;-)" anyway.
Most of the time, people are given only two options: give up on their task, or ignore the popup. No point in reading the message in such cases, it brings zero value.
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