Similar situation with WhatsApp on Android: you can’t share images or videos without giving the app full access to your entire filesystem. You also can’t video or voice call without giving the app full phone permissions.

I have WhatsApp on Android and have restricted its access to my photos. Every time I want to share an image I need to first select which new photos I want to give Whatsapp access to, then select the photos again to send them. Next time I tap to share an image I won’t see any new photos in the options no matter how many new photos are in my gallery.

I can also share to Whatsapp from my gallery, which will prompt again the permission for this individual photo thing. Same.

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.

And apps have to support it, which WhatsApp doesn’t

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.