Monthly Archives: February 2012

The right way for developers to access your Contacts on iOS

There’s been lots of controversy the past few days about Path’s admittance that they had transparently uploaded your entire list of contacts to help better find your friends.

Today they released an updated that asks permission before uploading your contact list.

Ironically today Instagram also released an update that includes the perfect way to describe what they would like to do:

Instagram Address Book permission dialog

It’s worded perfectly in my opinion, besides the fact that the application on your iPhone is called Contacts.