Comment by hk__2
2 months ago
> Look at how many apps require permission to see you contacts.
It is so annoying that it’s either "give access to ALL my contacts and ALL their information (yes, even the notes I took on their favorite things for next Christmas)" or "don’t give access". I wish we could limit the number of contacts and the level of information we give.
> It is so annoying that it’s either "give access to ALL my contacts and ALL their information… […] I wish we could limit the number of contacts and the level of information we give.
iOS added fine-grained (at the contact level) access to contacts data last year.
https://lifehacker.com/tech/you-can-control-which-contacts-a...
They did the same for photos years ago.
Many apps have not updated and perhaps never will.
They don't need to be, since it's enforced at the OS level. Users can limit permissions to individual contacts regardless of whether iOS apps have been updated to explicitly handle that use case.
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Check if GrapheneOS suits your needs. It has "contact scopes", ie you cna literally allow the app to see single contact only.
Same with storage scopes: one directory and that's it.
iOS hasn’t allowed access to contact notes for several years, and last year added support for providing arbitrary subsets of contacts to all apps.
Photo access has improved a lot in this regard recently.