I guess the most valuable data WhatsApp leeches from you is your contacts graph. Wish Apple would let us choose which contacts to give specific apps access to,

I guess the most valuable data WhatsApp leeches from you is your contacts graph. Wish Apple would let us choose which contacts to give specific apps access to, like they did for photos. In the meantime, you can try minimizing what WhatsApp sees about you by turning off access to contacts, using the desktop or web app, and just talking to people via https://wa.me/{phoneNumber} https://wa.me/{phoneNumber}