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rewrite Contact Scopes section in usage guide

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Dmitry Muhomor 2024-01-22 12:25:54 +02:00 committed by Daniel Micay
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<section id="contact-scopes"> <section id="contact-scopes">
<h2><a href="#contact-scopes">Contact Scopes</a></h2> <h2><a href="#contact-scopes">Contact Scopes</a></h2>
<p>The Contact Scopes feature enables the user to grant an app read access to a <p>On Android, contact access is controlled with an all-or-nothing Contacts permission, which grants
subset of data in the OS ContactsProvider. Granting write access (insert, both read and write access to all contacts stored on the device.</p>
update, delete) is not supported.</p>
<p>Read access can be granted to the following scopes:</p> <p>A lot of apps (e.g. popular messaging apps) refuse to work unless the Contacts permission is granted.</p>
<p>GrapheneOS provides the Contact Scopes feature as an alternative to granting the Contacts permission.
Enabling Contact Scopes makes the app assume that it has the Contacts permission, despite not actually
having it. By default, an app that has Contact Scopes enabled is not allowed any kind of contact access.</p>
<p>Optionally, read access can be granted to the following scopes:</p>
<ul> <ul>
<li>Contact data (phone number or email). Access to each type of number and <li>Contact data (phone number or email). Access to each type of number and email in a contact is
email in a contact is granted separately. Access to contact name is granted granted separately. Access to the contact name is granted automatically.</li>
automatically.</li> <li>Single contact. Access is granted to all contact data, except contact photo.</li>
<li>Contact group ("label"). Equivalent to granting access to all contacts in the group. Any contact
<li>Single contact. Access is granted to all contact data, except photo, can be in any number of contact groups.</li>
originating account type and name, contact sync data.</li>
<li>Contact group ("label"). Equivalent to granting access to all contacts
in the group. Any contact can be in any number of contact groups.</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>Type and name of account that contact is stored in is fully hidden from the <p>The type and name of the account that the contact is stored in are fully hidden from the app. The name
app. Name of contact account is usually the same as email address of that of the contact account is usually the same as the email address of that account.</p>
account.</p>
<p>Access to SIM phonebook data is fully stubbed out: an empty and immutable <p>When Contact Scopes is enabled, write access is fully blocked: the app is not allowed to edit any
content provider is exposed instead of the actual SIM phonebook. Implementations contact data, add or remove contacts, etc.</p>
of legacy (ICC) and modern SIM stub phonebook providers are added to
packages/services/Telephony.</p>
<p>The Contact Scopes feature is enabled per-app. When it's enabled, app's calls
to contacts provider and to SIM phonebook providers are redirected, respectively,
to ScopedContactsProvider and to stub SIM phonebook providers.</p>
</section> </section>
<section id="accessibility"> <section id="accessibility">