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maybe they're serving different versions of the app to different regions or something. I am 100% sure this doesn't work for me.
That is a an Android feature. A user can select the media they want to share without giving full access to the media folder. It was introduced with Android 14.
And apps have to support it, which WhatsApp doesn't
Edit: I was wrong, see below
Not sure about that because I can use it with WhatsApp.
I don't want to talk you into accidentally allowing access to all your photos. But I believe if you tap settings there, or if you long press your app icon to go to settings and then navigate to permissions, you will find the screen where you can choose never allow, always allow, and allow limited access which is the one you want.
Well what do you know, it worked! Thanks!
I allowed limited access and then selected nothing. Now I can send images and videos by sharing them from elsewhere.
Woohoo!
Glad they allow selective sharing on iOS
apparently this works on Android as well, see other replies :)
Preload vs play store version?
play store. what's preload?
So a many oems load on versions of apps from Meta and other developers as preloads on the phone so they are there day one when you first launch the OS. These versions of the apps are not subject to Play store policy restrictions around permissions and other data privacy things, and are generally far more privacy invasive than their Play store equivalents. I usually advise people to disable or uninstall preloaded versions as much as possible and try to get the Play store versions instead.