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Contacts access

Contacts access is permission for an application or service to access the contact information stored in a user's address book or contacts list.

In plain English

This is about allowing an app or service to reach the names and other contact details saved in a person's contacts list. The focus is the stored address-book information itself.

In context

Here, "Contacts access" names the permission covering the app's ability to access the contact information stored in the user's contacts list.

Situation
Reviewing app permissions, consent prompts, access scopes, and security warnings
What it communicates
names the contact-data permission for the app.

Meaning limits

The term alone does not say whether that permission is currently granted or denied.

Examples

“The messaging app requested contacts access to read the names and numbers stored in Maya's address book.”

Core meaning

“For the sync service, contacts access covers the entries already saved in his contacts list.”

In context

  • access permission Broader Term

    A permission that allows access to a resource or information; contacts access is one kind of this.