Google’s Quiet Power Move: Android 17 Finally Kills the All-or-Nothing Address Book Grab

Google’s Quiet Power Move: Android 17 Finally Kills the All-or-Nothing Address Book Grab

For more than a decade, the deal was simple and ugly. Want to share a single contact with an app? Hand over your entire address book. Every name, every number, every email — all of it, surrendered in bulk because the operating system offered no middle ground. With Android 17, Google is dismantling that bargain. The change is called the contact picker, and it works exactly the way most people assumed their phone already worked. When an app reques…

Android 17 Iintroduces contact picker to limit app access to user data

Google has introduced a new contact-sharing feature in Android 17 aimed at reducing how much personal data apps can access.

Contact Picker: Privacy-First Contact Sharing

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.