None declared
It depends on how you feel about tracking: Contacts Phone Dialer declares data used to track you. The sensitive items are location and contacts. In total the label lists 6 data types; 33% of contacts backup apps we checked declare tracking.
Contacts Phone Dialer 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 Phone Dialer's developer reports using location, contact info, contacts, identifiers, usage data, diagnostics to track you across other companies' apps and websites.
Did Contacts Phone Dialer ask for something?
Pick the permission prompt you saw. We compare it with what Contacts Phone Dialer's developer declared.
Contacts Phone Dialer lists Location on its label, including for tracking. Choose While Using and turn off Precise Location if the feature works without it.
User Content is not on Contacts Phone Dialer'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 Phone Dialer lists Contacts on its label, including for tracking. Limited Access shares selected contacts instead of your whole address book.
Contacts Phone Dialer 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 Phone Dialer'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 Phone Dialer collects, explained
| Data type | What it covers | Where to limit it |
|---|---|---|
| LocationSensitiveUsed to track youLinked to you | Where your phone is, either precisely (street level) or approximately (city or area). | Settings › Privacy & Security › Location Services: choose Never or While Using, and turn off Precise Location if the app does not need it. |
| ContactsSensitiveUsed to track youLinked to you | The people in your address book or social graph. | Settings › Privacy & Security › Contacts: choose Limited Access to share only selected people, or None. |
| Contact InfoUsed to track youLinked to you | Your name, email address, phone number or postal address. | Use Sign in with Apple with Hide My Email where offered, and check the app's account and marketing preferences. |
| IdentifiersUsed to track youLinked 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. |
| Usage DataUsed to track youLinked to you | What you tap, open and view inside the app, plus which ads you have seen. | There is no single iOS switch. Look for an analytics or personalised-ads toggle in the app's own settings. |
| DiagnosticsUsed to track youLinked to you | Crash logs, launch times, hang rates and energy use. | Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements › Share With App Developers controls what Apple passes on; the app's own crash reporting is separate. |
What Contacts Phone Dialer's label means for you
Contacts Phone Dialer's label has 6 types under “Data Used to Track You”, 6 types under “Data 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 location, contact info, contacts, identifiers, usage data, diagnostics from Contacts Phone Dialer 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.
The items that deserve the most attention are location and contacts. Location history reveals home, work and routines. Precise location deserves the most scrutiny.
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 Phone Dialer lists 6 data types, more 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 Phone Dialer
- 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
Location
Settings › Privacy & Security › Location Services › Contacts Phone Dialer. Choose While Using or Never, and switch off Precise Location if a city-level answer is enough.
- 3
Contacts
Settings › Privacy & Security › Contacts. Limited Access shares only the people you select instead of your whole address book.
- 4
Sign-in
When creating an account, Sign in with Apple can give the app a relay address from Hide My Email instead of your real one.
- 5
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.
- 6
Notifications
Settings › Notifications › Contacts Phone Dialer › Show Previews: When Unlocked keeps message and account details off the Lock Screen.
Does Contacts Phone Dialer track you?
Location, contact info, contacts, identifiers, usage data and diagnostics. 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 Phone Dialer track you? Full answer and how to stop it →
Lock Contacts Phone Dialer behind Face ID
- Find Contacts Phone Dialer 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 Phone Dialer now asks for authentication every time it opens.
The lock is an iPhone feature, so it works whether or not Contacts Phone Dialer has a passcode of its own. It does not change what the app sends to its developer.
About Contacts Phone Dialer
| Developer | Janvi Lathiya |
| App Store category | Productivity (also Business) |
| Latest version | 1.0, released February 2025 |
| First released | February 2025 |
| Requires | iOS 16.6 or later |
| Size | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ |
| Languages | 1 (EN) |
| Bundle ID | com.contacts.phonedialer |
The current version shipped in February 2025, over a year before our snapshot. Older apps can lag behind iOS privacy features such as limited photo and contact access.
Also by Janvi Lathiya: Voice Recorder Sound Record.
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 Phone Dialer 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 Phone Dialer's developer: How do I delete my contacts from their server later?
Contacts Phone Dialer vs similar contacts backup apps
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Your Contacts Phone Dialer privacy checklist
Done. You have applied every control the label points to.
True or false?
- Right.Not quite.
True: it lists location, contact info, contacts, identifiers, usage data and diagnostics 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: Location 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.