When Apple announced third-party keyboard support for the iPhone, the implementation annoyingly reverted to Apple's own keyboard for password or other "sensitive" entries, specifically to mitigate this problem.
Wouldn't refusing network access for keyboards be a better solution, on Android majority of open source keyboard apps don't have network permission at all.
This is my dream scenario, stock Android and iOS having the feature to disable network access for apps.
It's such a simple, quality of life improvement for certain apps that I know I never want to phone home for any reason outside of 'cloud centric' features. Blocking traffic and DNS requests by hand is time-consuming, and new servers / connections can prop up at anytime without one's knowledge, not to mention you might block a domain for a specific app but need it for another (star.c10r.facebook.com for example, which also blocks Meta AI research websites).
I kind of get why they wouldn't, such as unexpected behaviour, sweet data collection and license checking, but man. At least a handful of custom ROMs and local-VPN privacy apps on Android allows for this.
Yes, this is what I meant by local VPN privacy app (didn't find the right words admittedly, as it's not a standalone firewall per say and unfortunately cannot be used in tandem with a real VPN tunnel), excellent one though!
