Add App-Only Photos Capabilities to iOS Apps

You can protect your mobile app privacy and data by adding features like keep mobile app photos private from Appdome’s Mobile Privacy category. Appdome’s APP-ONLY PHOTOS feature is an important part of mobile app privacy and data loss prevention. Sensitive application data can leak through photos taken by the user within the app. Appdome’s APP-ONLY PHOTOS feature ensures that photos taken by a protected application are accessible only within the context of the protected app – no other apps can access those photos.

This Knowledge Base article provides step-by-step instructions to use the APP-ONLY PHOTOS feature in Appdome’s Mobile Security Suite.

We hope you find it useful and enjoy using Appdome!

Protecting Any Mobile App Photos with Appdome’s APP-ONLY PHOTOS

Appdome is a mobile integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that allows users to add a wide variety of features, SDKs and APIs to Android and iOS apps easily. Using a simple ‘click to add’ user interface, Appdome allows anyone to protect the mobile app photos – in seconds, no code or coding required.

APP-ONLY PHOTOS protects any mobile app photos taken by the application. When a photo is taken by a user within the application, Appdome intercepts the “saving” request and saves the photo to the application’s private files, which would ensure those photos receive the same level of protection as other data stored in the same protected location.

This will ensure that all the app photos are protected privately and inaccessible to other applications. Furthermore, with Appdome’s TOTALData Encryption the app photos and sensitive data will be encrypted at runtime using industry-standard AES 256  cryptographic protocols.

Prerequisites for Using APP-ONLY PHOTOS

In order to use Appdome’s no code implementation of APP-ONLY PHOTOS, you’ll need:

• Appdome account – COMPLETE or Higher.
• Mobile App (.ipa for iOS)
• Appdome-DEV access
• Signing Credentials (e.g., signing certificates and provisioning profile)

How to Protect Your Mobile App Photos

Follow these step-by-step instructions to add APP-ONLY PHOTOS to any iOS app.

Upload a Mobile App to Your Account

Please follow these steps to upload a mobile app to your Appdome account.
In a few seconds, your upload will be completed. The app will be added to your App Library.

If you don’t have an Appdome account, click here to create an account.

From the “Build” tab, go to Security

1. Open Mobile Privacy category
2. Toggle the APP-ONLY PHOTOS switch
3. (Optional) Toggle the Combined Camera Roll to make the public (device) camera roll accessible to your application. Private photos will only be accessible to your application and will be marked with Appdome default favicon.
4. (Optional) Add your customized icon as a favicon to private photos’ thumbnails.
5. Click Build My App

The technology behind Build My App has two major elements – (1) a microservice architecture filled with 1000s of code sets needed for mobile integrations, and (2) an adaptive code generation engine that can recognize the development environment, frameworks and methods in each app and match the app to the relevant code-sets needed to add APP-ONLY PHOTOS functionality to the mobile app in seconds.

Congratulations! When Appdome’s technology completes your mobile integration project (usually in about 30 seconds), you’ll see the notification below. You now have a mobile app built with Appdome’s “APP-ONLY PHOTOS” feature.

How Do I Learn More?

To zoom out on this topic, visit  Appdome for Mobile App Security on our website.

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If you have any questions, please send them our way at support@appdome.com or via the chat window on the Appdome platform.

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