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Wire uploads your contacts to their service by default (on Android before M, because you nodded at the installation or something). No post installation popup as
by darklajid 10y ago
Wire uploads your contacts to their service by default (on Android before M, because you nodded at the installation or something). No post installation popup asking you if you want to share them. (August 2016)
Wire has not even a way to remove contacts. I'm not kidding. After the faux pas above I had random 'Wire contacts' that it discovered for me, based on a combination of 'in my address book' and 'in their address book'. You cannot unfriend/remove those, at all. Talked to their support and they actually confirmed that (4th of August, doubt that it changed) you can only _block_ users.
Blocking != removing. If "random ex-coworker" comes up in my list, I might want to remove the contact without blocking the person. One's "Don't care about this contact" vs "This contact has no place in my life".
Bringing Wire up as a decent example for contact handling therefor seems .. strange.
- walterbell 10y agoI use Apple iOS, where the operating system allows users to default deny contact access to all apps, with explicit whitelisting from Settings. Wire worked perfectly without access to my contacts on iOS. Signal refused to work without contact access, when iOS prevented Signal from accessing contacts. I am sorry to hear about your Android experience, but I abandoned that platform long ago because of confusing management of per-app permissions, along with Google's penchant for data collection. Wire users on Android should try to get Wire developers to improve the control options on that platform, they usually respond within a few days to support requests. I almost bought a separate iOS phone just to run Signal without access to contacts. Since Wire came along, that is no longer necessary and I can use Wire without a phone number.