From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-02-10 14:23, Jeff Layman wrote:   
   > On 10/02/2026 21:56, Alan wrote:   
   >> On 2026-02-10 13:51, Maria Sophia wrote:   
   >>> I have 78 or 79, including system apps that have read permission to my   
   >>> contacts, although none of them can get even a single contact from me.   
   >>   
   >> How in the hell does that sentence make sense?   
   >>   
   >> Can someone help me out here?   
   >   
   >  From what I remember has been previously written, there are no contact   
   > names stored anywhere on Maria Sophia's phone. I guess it means that   
   > when a message is received (eg email or SMS), and the Contacts app   
   > offers to store the senders name as a contact, that offer is refused   
   > every time.   
   >   
   > The contacts could instead be stored in a text file with email addresses   
   > and phone numbers next to them.   
   >   
   > BICBW...   
   >   
      
   I supposed that could be true.   
      
   Of course, I wouldn't refer to a null set of contacts as "my contacts".   
   That would make no sense.   
      
   If that's what I meant--that 78 or 79 apps had access to the contacts   
   database, I'd probably have written something like:   
      
   "I have 78 or 79, including system apps that have read permission to the   
   contacts database, although that's empty because I don't use it."   
      
      
   But then, I'm interesting in making this clear, and that never seems to   
   be among Arlen's motivations for posting.   
      
   Did you see where he recently wrote that iOS doesn't expose the "real   
   file system" to your PC, as "every other common consumer operating   
   system does"...   
      
   ...and then in his very next post on the subject it was suddenly a   
   "normal-looking storage area" instead of a "real file system"?   
      
   :-)   
      
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