<story><title>iOS 17 is available today</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/ios-17-is-available-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WA</author><text>One thing missing (and has been for years): fine-tuned Contacts access control. Like the one for Photos.&lt;p&gt;Apps want to access contacts and it’s all or nothing right now. But Contacts also is quite integrated and is better if you fill in more details such as addresses and birthdates.&lt;p&gt;So an app requesting access gets everything if you grant it.&lt;p&gt;For Apple‘s pro-privacy stance, this oversight is quite painful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lancesells</author><text>In conjunction, I would love the ability to have a flag that tells anyone that adds me to their Contacts in iOS to not give my info to any apps. Basically, take me off the share list.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not saying the end-user shouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to ignore this, but as part of these controls that would be great. I don&amp;#x27;t need or want a shadow-profile on Clubhouse or anything else.</text></comment>
<story><title>iOS 17 is available today</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/ios-17-is-available-today/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WA</author><text>One thing missing (and has been for years): fine-tuned Contacts access control. Like the one for Photos.&lt;p&gt;Apps want to access contacts and it’s all or nothing right now. But Contacts also is quite integrated and is better if you fill in more details such as addresses and birthdates.&lt;p&gt;So an app requesting access gets everything if you grant it.&lt;p&gt;For Apple‘s pro-privacy stance, this oversight is quite painful.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>judge2020</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.apple.com&amp;#x2F;documentation&amp;#x2F;contactsui&amp;#x2F;cncontactpickerviewcontroller&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developer.apple.com&amp;#x2F;documentation&amp;#x2F;contactsui&amp;#x2F;cnconta...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;iOS 9.0+. The blunder is Apple not deprecating CNContactStore, but then many apps really only work if they get your full contacts list (e.g. knowing when a friend joins Snapchat)</text></comment>