One Android app I'm hoping to use is Yolla, a paid VoIP -> PSTN app. On the iPhone it's well-behaved, but on Android it refuses to run unless you grant it permission to access contacts. I'm not willing to hand over my address book to random third-party apps. At least, not closed-source commercial apps.
Still, to check whether Android apps actually have access to the main contacts list, I risked it and installed Fossify Contacts and Connect You from F-Droid. I granted both of those access to my address book. Neither of them could see any contacts. So this looks quite good for me, I can probably install Yolla safely.
But my question is, is this a deliberate design choice I can expect to be maintained? I would hate to be rugpulled by a well-intentioned system update. On that note, I can imagine some people might want to access the main phone contact list from Android apps. Is that a feature that is likely to arrive? Is there any prospect of providing a fake contact list for untrustworthy apps?
Xenon 11/02/2026 11:30 pm
@matthewexon Are you shure that your contact list is shared between your FuriOS and Andromeda ? I think i had to make a CalDAV sync to use my contacts on android.
matthewexon Topic starter
12/02/2026 3:55 am
I'm sure that my contact list is not shared now. I don't want it to be shared, that's my point. I just want to make sure that it won't ever be shared to Android apps without my permission.
