I’ve been trying to migrate away from snapchat for years now because everything about it irritates me but I’ve still got like 3 stragglers for whom it is my main form of communication.
I’ve been trying to migrate away from snapchat for years now because everything about it irritates me but I’ve still got like 3 stragglers for whom it is my main form of communication.
If you can prove that, you’d probably have a nice story on your hand. I don’t think there’s currently a known way an app can bypass system permissions for contacts on current Android/iOS.
Just to follow up here, and to share what I’ve got
“Invite to Snapchat” from my contacts, with their specific names:
and the permissions for Snapchat, showing contacts is not allowed:

After looking at this, I set everything to “ask every time”. I also removed access to the phone app… I haven’t talked to almost anyone on that list on the phone, but I figure it couldn’t hurt to further restrict.
That’s pretty interesting. What version of Android are you running, and on what device, if you feel comfy sharing that?