Camera.pickImages(...) ignores limited permission state

[robingenz]

Bug Report

Plugin(s)

• @capacitor/[email protected]

Capacitor Version

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Latest Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 4.6.1
  @capacitor/core: 4.6.1
  @capacitor/android: 4.6.1
  @capacitor/ios: 4.6.1

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 4.6.0
  @capacitor/core: 4.6.0
  @capacitor/android: 4.6.0
  @capacitor/ios: 4.6.0

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Platform(s)

• iOS

Current Behavior

If the user only allows access to specific images in the app's permissions, all images on the device will still appear in Photo Picker (Camera.pickImages(...)).

Restricted access to specific photos	All photos selectable

Expected Behavior

I expect the Photo Picker to display only the images for which the user has given permission.

Code Reproduction

I will provide the reproducible example shortly.
Maybe I just misunderstood something.

Other Technical Details

iOS Version: 15.5

Additional Context

I have not much experience with the photo picker on iOS. So far I thought that iOS handles this and restricts access. But apparently the developer has some freedom here.

[jcesarmobile]

Limited just means that the access to some photos is limited, but not that you can't get those photos.
The limited photos will not include sensitive information such as the exif data. Getting photos from the photo library really doesn't need any permissions, we request the permission so we can get the exif data.
The image picker is provided by Apple and they don't offer a way of only showing the limited photos.
If you want to only show the limited photos, Camera plugin has getLimitedLibraryPhotos() method that returns all the limited photos, you'll have to create an html chooser with those pictures if you want users to choose.

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