Reddit and LinkedIn are changing their apps to prevent them from looking at the Apple iPhone clipboard.
In a developer trial version of the phone's latest operating system update, iOS 14, users are notified whenever an app accesses the copied text on the device.
The notification revealed frequent scans of the clipboard by apps that many users felt didn't need to do.
The two companies follow TikTok in changing their apps between criticisms.
A senior LinkedIn executive tweeted that the code that enabled it had been removed, while Reddit said he would release a fix next week.
"We tracked it down in a codepath in the post composer that checks the URLs in the montage panel and then suggests a post title based on the content of the URL text," Reddit told The Verge technical site.
He added that he did not archive or receive the contents of the clipboard and said the correction would be released on Tuesday July 14th.
Meanwhile Erran Berger, LinkedIn's vice president of consumer products, replied to a tweet from someone who noticed that the app was asking to look at the clipboard with "every keystroke".
Berger replied that the app was conducting an "equality check" to see if what was on the clipboard was the same as what had been written on the app, but it didn't go into depth.
He also claimed that LinkedIn has not stored or received the data and has stated that a new update on the Apple App Store has removed the code.
Last month TikTok claimed that it had searched for the contents of the Apple iPhone clipboard to prevent "repetitive behavior and spam" and that it has now removed the feature.
In research published in March, Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk identified dozens of apps that claimed to have accessed the clipboard.
At the moment Apple has said it does not think it was a vulnerability.
There are legitimate reasons why an app needs access to the clipboard, for example to share a website address with a messaging platform or to acquire a password from a password manager and paste it into a password-protected service.
