Contacts
Messaging · declared: 0 data types collected, 9 shared No tracking declared
Contacts is an app published by Apple Inc. that lets you store and manage contact information, birthdays, and contact posters, then connect with people through Mail, Messages, Phone, FaceTime, and NameDrop.
AI Curated — summarised by Claude from the Apple App Store listing · store listing
Developer's store label — not yet Staff Reviewed
Sensor & data access crowdsourced
iOS itself recorded these accesses on donors' iPhones — how many times the app touched each privacy-protected resource. Every row was reported by at least 3 separate accepted donations and published under a human verdict (rows arriving after an app's evidence was approved inherit that verdict). Counts are totals across the donated reports; access times are never collected.
| Resource | Donations | Accesses | Seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contacts | 4 | 166 | 2026-07-29 → 2026-07-30 |
How to read this
- A contact is a measurement, not an accusation. iOS records that the app (or code inside it, like an ad or analytics SDK) reached the domain. It does not show what data was sent.
- Counts reflect the donors' usage. A heavily-used app produces more contacts; compare domains within this app, not across apps.
- Separate donations, not proven separate people. Donations are anonymous by design, so we can count donations — we cannot prove three donations came from three donors. Human review weighs that before anything publishes.
- "Not in label" is the finding that matters. It means measured behavior with no matching disclosure in the app's own store privacy label — the declared-vs-observed gap this database exists to expose.
Domain owner/type attribution from Apple's App Privacy Report where the donor's export carried it; tracker classification via the AdGuard companiesdb (CC BY-SA 4.0). You can add to this evidence: donate your own App Privacy Report — parsed in your browser, shared only with your per-app consent, accepted anonymously (no account, no email, no IP address stored).
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