None declared
It depends on how you feel about tracking: Contacts Backup Easy Backup declares data used to track you. None of it falls in Apple's most sensitive categories (health, financial, location, contacts or your own content). In total the label lists 1 data type; 33% of contacts backup apps we checked declare tracking.
Contacts Backup Easy Backup privacy in one look
- 1Collects nothing
- 2Not linked
- 3Linked
- 4Tracks you
Built only from the developer's App Store label. It describes disclosure, not tested behaviour.
Contacts Backup Easy Backup's developer reports using identifiers to track you across other companies' apps and websites.
Did Contacts Backup Easy Backup ask for something?
Pick the permission prompt you saw. We compare it with what Contacts Backup Easy Backup's developer declared.
Location is not on Contacts Backup Easy Backup's label. That can be fine: data used only on your iPhone does not have to be declared. If the data would need to leave the phone for the feature to work, ask why it is missing.
User Content is not on Contacts Backup Easy Backup's label. That can be fine: data used only on your iPhone does not have to be declared. If the data would need to leave the phone for the feature to work, ask why it is missing.
Contacts is not on Contacts Backup Easy Backup's label. That can be fine: data used only on your iPhone does not have to be declared. If the data would need to leave the phone for the feature to work, ask why it is missing.
Contacts Backup Easy Backup declares data used to track you, so expect the “Allow to track?” prompt. Tap Ask App Not to Track; the app must keep working without it.
Health & Fitness is not on Contacts Backup Easy Backup's label. That can be fine: data used only on your iPhone does not have to be declared. If the data would need to leave the phone for the feature to work, ask why it is missing.
A permission is what the app can reach on your iPhone; the label is what the developer says leaves it. They answer different questions.
What Contacts Backup Easy Backup collects, explained
| Data type | What it covers | Where to limit it |
|---|---|---|
| IdentifiersUsed to track youNot linked to you | An account ID, screen name, customer number or a device-level ID such as the advertising identifier. | Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking: turn off Allow Apps to Request to Track, or tap Ask App Not to Track when prompted. |
What Contacts Backup Easy Backup's label means for you
Contacts Backup Easy Backup's label has 1 type under “Data Used to Track You”, 1 type under “Data Not Linked to You”. A data type can appear in more than one section when it is used for different purposes — for example, identifiers used for both analytics and advertising.
Tracking is the declaration that most separates apps. It means identifiers from Contacts Backup Easy Backup can be combined with data from other companies to target or measure ads, or shared with data brokers. On iOS 14.5 and later, the app must ask your permission before tracking you through the advertising identifier; answering “Ask App Not to Track” blocks that identifier and tells the developer you have declined.
None of the data types fall into the categories most people consider sensitive: health, financial information, precise location, contacts, browsing history or the content you create.
Contacts backup apps upload your whole address book — other people's names, numbers and addresses, not just yours. Check where the backup is stored, whether it is encrypted, and how to delete it from the server.
Among the 126 contacts backup apps in our snapshot with a label, 33% declare tracking, 48% collect data linked to you and 33% say they collect nothing. Contacts Backup Easy Backup lists 1 data type, fewer than the average of 2.2 for this group.
Productivity apps tend to collect the work you do in them — documents, notes and files — so User Content is common. The question is whether it syncs to the developer's servers and how it is protected there.
Settings to check for Contacts Backup Easy Backup
- 1
Tracking
Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking. If “Allow Apps to Request to Track” is off, apps cannot ask, and they are told to treat you as having declined. You can also turn it off for this app alone.
- 2
Lock the app
On iOS 18 and later, touch and hold the icon and choose Require Face ID. Anyone who picks up your unlocked phone then needs your face, fingerprint or passcode to open it.
- 3
Notifications
Settings › Notifications › Contacts Backup Easy Backup › Show Previews: When Unlocked keeps message and account details off the Lock Screen.
Does Contacts Backup Easy Backup track you?
Identifiers. Apple defines tracking as linking data from this app with data from other companies' apps, websites or offline sources for targeted advertising or ad measurement, or sharing it with a data broker.
Does Contacts Backup Easy Backup track you? Full answer and how to stop it →
Lock Contacts Backup Easy Backup behind Face ID
- Find Contacts Backup Easy Backup on your Home Screen or in App Library.
- Touch and hold the icon until the quick-actions menu opens.
- Tap Require Face ID (or Require Touch ID / Require Passcode, depending on your iPhone).
- Tap Require Face ID again to confirm. Contacts Backup Easy Backup now asks for authentication every time it opens.
The lock is an iPhone feature, so it works whether or not Contacts Backup Easy Backup has a passcode of its own. It does not change what the app sends to its developer.
About Contacts Backup Easy Backup
| Developer | 妙中 张 |
| App Store category | Productivity |
| Latest version | 1.0.8, released March 2025 |
| First released | June 2024 |
| Requires | iOS 15.0 or later |
| Size | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ |
| Languages | 3 (EN, ZH, ZH) |
| Bundle ID | com.mingkun.ContactsBackup |
The current version shipped in March 2025, over a year before our snapshot. Older apps can lag behind iOS privacy features such as limited photo and contact access.
What the label cannot tell you
- A label is self-reported. Apple publishes the developer's answers and can reject apps that misrepresent them, but it does not independently verify what Contacts Backup Easy Backup sends.
- It does not say where data is stored, how long it is kept, whether it is encrypted, or which companies receive it. The privacy policy covers those points.
- Optional data counts: if a feature lets you add something (a profile photo, a phone number), the type is listed even if you never use the feature.
- Data handled only on your iPhone is not 'collected', so a no-collection label is compatible with an app that reads your files locally.
- Third-party sign-in, payment processors and SDKs are supposed to be included, but a label can lag behind a new version.
The question to ask Contacts Backup Easy Backup's developer: How do I delete my contacts from their server later?
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Your Contacts Backup Easy Backup privacy checklist
Done. You have applied every control the label points to.
True or false?
- Right.Not quite.
True: it lists identifiers under Data Used to Track You.
- Right.Not quite.
Labels are self-reported by developers. Apple can reject or remove apps that misrepresent practices, but it does not audit each label.
- Right.Not quite.
True: Identifiers appears on its label.
- Right.Not quite.
It is collected and sent; the developer says it is de-identified rather than tied to your account or device.
- Right.Not quite.
Apple's rules require apps to work the same whether or not you allow tracking.