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I think we need more fine-grained contact permission options. Here's what an app on iOS can read and modify (!) when you allow it to access your contacts: http

I think we need more fine-grained contact permission options. Here's what an app on iOS can read and modify (!) when you allow it to access your contacts: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/contacts_constants https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/contacts_...

oliv__ 9y ago
Wow. That's a lot of data!
jordansmithnz 9y ago
First time I looked at the framework, I expected to be able to read existing contacts, and create new contacts. I was a little surprised at editing existing contacts. Nothing is really stopping an app with permission switching all of your contact numbers so they point to someone else, whether by accident, or on purpose. It seems like something waiting to go wrong...
- imaffett 9y ago
  Facebook did this years ago. It went through your contacts and updated any info (pictures, phone, email) to match what they had in Facebook.
hakcermani 9y ago
Yes! Its high time. Need read-only, specific groups only, read only a public profile. Of course that will be the end of these find your friends feature.
calvinbhai 9y ago
I'm working on an app that makes use of this in a good way (to add new contacts and remove duplicates with explicit action by the user). While doing some research on similar apps, I didn't find a single app that does not give the user an option to not upload the contacts to the app's servers. Basically if use doesn't give this permission, app is useless. I'm hoping the app I build will get a sustainable revenue without needing to uploading all contacts. But in the long run, for contact management apps, there's exponentially more value in handling the contacts data in the cloud, so that its users get the max benefit. But imo any app that's not for contact management (e.g., Facebook etc) should have limited read only access to the contacts data.
Balgair 9y ago
https://www.silentcircle.com/buy/ https://www.silentcircle.com/buy/ It's kinda like bringing a bazooka to a knife fight, but this will get the job done nonetheless.
UncleMeat 9y ago
Doesn't work. We've had research on this for a long time. For a small percentage of the population maybe they can make judgements on a fine grained model but for the majority of people it becomes confusing and often worse than nothing.

oliv__ 9y ago

Wow. That's a lot of data!

jordansmithnz 9y ago

First time I looked at the framework, I expected to be able to read existing contacts, and create new contacts. I was a little surprised at editing existing contacts. Nothing is really stopping an app with permission switching all of your contact numbers so they point to someone else, whether by accident, or on purpose. It seems like something waiting to go wrong...

imaffett 9y ago
Facebook did this years ago. It went through your contacts and updated any info (pictures, phone, email) to match what they had in Facebook.

hakcermani 9y ago

Yes! Its high time. Need read-only, specific groups only, read only a public profile. Of course that will be the end of these find your friends feature.

calvinbhai 9y ago

I'm working on an app that makes use of this in a good way (to add new contacts and remove duplicates with explicit action by the user). While doing some research on similar apps, I didn't find a single app that does not give the user an option to not upload the contacts to the app's servers. Basically if use doesn't give this permission, app is useless. I'm hoping the app I build will get a sustainable revenue without needing to uploading all contacts. But in the long run, for contact management apps, there's exponentially more value in handling the contacts data in the cloud, so that its users get the max benefit. But imo any app that's not for contact management (e.g., Facebook etc) should have limited read only access to the contacts data.

Balgair 9y ago

https://www.silentcircle.com/buy/ https://www.silentcircle.com/buy/ It's kinda like bringing a bazooka to a knife fight, but this will get the job done nonetheless.

UncleMeat 9y ago

Doesn't work. We've had research on this for a long time. For a small percentage of the population maybe they can make judgements on a fine grained model but for the majority of people it becomes confusing and often worse than nothing.