>To make FaceApp actually work, you have to give it permissions to access your photos - ALL of them. But it also gains access to Siri and Search .... Oh, and it has access to refreshing in the background - so even when you are not using it, it is using you.

This is false, you can just take a pic and never give it access to your gallery. If the authors are lying about something so trivial, what else do journalists lie about? That's why I don't trust them.