Android 17 ends all-or-nothing access to your contacts

Android 17 ends all-or-nothing access to your contacts

Don’t have an account? Sign up > Try our antivirus with a free, full-featured 14-day trial Protect your team’s devices and data – no IT skills needed Explore award-winning endpoint security for your business Some of the apps on your phone want your contacts. Most don’t need them all, but have been happily slurping up the lot for years. Google has decided to do something about that with the next version of Android. Android 17 (currently in preview) is introducing a new Contact Picker that lets users grant apps access to specific contacts rather than the entire list. Previously, any app that needed a single phone number had to request READ_CONTACTS. That’s a permission that handed over every name, email, and number. It’s the digital equivalent of handing someone your entire Rolodex because they asked for one business card. An app that can harvest your entire contact list can map your socia

Source: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/mobile/2026/04/android-17-ends-all-or-nothing-access-to-your-contacts