Deseta Emojis 4+

Fun stickers for messages!

Fun stickers for messages to my Ethiopian friends. I just wish there were more!

READ THE PRIVACY NOTICE

While adding the Deseta Emojis to my keyboards in my iPhone settings, I read the privacy notice. Here's part of it:

"Third Party Keyboards provide an alternative way to input keyboard data. These keyboards can access all of the data you type, including bank account and credit card numbers, street addresses, as well as other personal and sensitive information. These keyboards may also access nearby text or data, which is useful for improving autocorrect functionality."

There's more and it doesn't get less alarming. Needless to say I did not add the keyboard which severely limits the functionality of the app. But I'm wondering why in the world would something like this be approved by apple anyway? Scary stuff!

Developer Response ,

With all due respect, I think you may have gotten a little too worked up over this. We do state in the app description above that full access to your phone is required in order for the keyboard to work. For 3rd party keyboard apps developers, this access is the only way that the copy + paste function can work. I wish it wasn't this way - we certainly don't want to make anyone uncomfortable - but this is unfortunately how it is for ALL 3rd party developers out there. There are literally THOUSANDS of 3rd party keyboard apps available on the app store, and EVERY SINGLE ONE of them have this issue, including all of those very popular celebrity ones. If you were to read the privacy notes for each of those, you would read the exact same thing you read on this app, and then copied and pasted here. And as for wondering why Apple would approve such a thing, you should know that they are they ones who wrote that privacy note.

And as we stated in the app description above, and again in the download instructions, we will NEVER access ANY of your information on your phone at ANY TIME beyond what is needed for the copy + paste function to work. This is our absolute word. We did not invest as much time and energy into building this robust app just to take more time and energy to engage in any ulterior motives. I am an artist and a designer, and it was truly my only passion to fill a void and build you a beautiful keyboard app that represents who we are. My partner is an app developer, and he just wanted to make this keyboard to work smoothly.

I hope that with this explanation, you better understand this issue now, and reconsider the rating you gave us, which was due to an issue that was out of our control, and was one we owned up front. It would be disappointing to see our otherwise very positive ratings be negatively affected by a misunderstanding like this.

Kudos to Deseta Design!!!!!!

Omg this app is so great! So grateful for these emojis who look like me and my community! And there are SO many BEAUTIFUL emojis to choose from!
PS - DO NOT BE ALARMED BY ALLOWING APP FULL ACCESS ON YOUR PHONE!!! This is standard requirement by Apple for all 3rd party keyboards, including Bitmoji and all those popular celebrity keyboards out there. The developers of this app are transparent about this in the app description and state that personal info will never be accessed at any time.

Developer Response ,

thank you!! i appreciate you understanding that!! and i'm glad you're having fun with it :)