How to control access to your contacts on iPad

On iPad, you control which of your contacts an app can access. The first time an app wants to access your contacts, you receive a request from the app, along with an explanation. A messaging app, for example, may ask to access your contacts in order to find friends who are using the same app.

After you grant or deny the app’s request, you choose how much access to your contacts you’re giving it, and with Limited Access, you pick individual contacts. You can always change the access you granted later.

1. Open Settings and then tap Privacy & Security.
2. Tap Contacts, then tap the app.
3. Choose how much access to your contacts you’re giving the app (below Contacts Access).
4. If you’re giving Limited Access, tap Edit Selected Contacts to choose individuals.

   Select or deselect individual contacts, then tap Done.

See also

• Control access to information in apps on iPad