I have a work-only phone, that is for Teams and Outlook, mainly.
While checking to make sure that fitness/motion/surveillance data was turned off, I pulled an App Privacy Report on a whim, and it said that Health had accessed my Contacts. What? It doesn’t sound like something I would do, especially on this phone.
But worse: there are no settings for this. Health is not listed as permitted to access Contacts under Privacy and Security, and conversely, Contacts isn’t an option under Health.
That’s bad enough, but it gets worse. I looked more closely at the privacy report. Basically all of Apple’s built-in apps are freely accessing Contacts. Mail, Music, Podcasts, Photos, and an icon-less “ShortcutsActions” app are all doing it. (So are Messages and Phone, but that at least is more of a core feature of those apps.)
Again, none of these apps are showing as granted permission to access Contacts through the Privacy and Security screen. Only Teams is there (and it’s forbidden.)
Apple has apparently given themselves special treatment to break the protections whenever and however they please, then (mostly) lie about it to their users.
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