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_...
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_...
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...
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.
It's kinda like bringing a bazooka to a knife fight, but this will get the job done nonetheless.