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Automobile's access to my Contacts?

When I paired my iPhone to my current car, the car brought in maybe a fifth of the contacts in my Contacts application. The contacts that the car brought in are exactly the ones that I do not want displayed on my very public dashboard. The car did not bring in the contacts that I would want to display, such as family.


I have the contacts in Contacts segregated into several different groups. Is there a way in the iPhone to limit the car's access to certain groups within Contacts?

iPhone SE

Posted on May 13, 2021 6:05 AM

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Posted on May 14, 2021 5:25 PM

In case anyone is curious, the answer is a setting in the iPhone. Go Settings>Bluetooth>(name of automobile>("i" in circle)>Sync Contacts. The trick (that I still do not understand) is manipulating the bottom of this page. After I turn on "Sync Contract," the iPhone automatically chooses "All Contacts." After I de-selected "All Contacts," the iPhone chose exactly the one group of contacts that I most wanted to NOT show in my car. That group duly appeared in my car. After several more efforts at unpairing and re-pairing the car and the phone, I was able to de-select in the iPhone the undesired group of contacts and choose the one group that I do want. The undesired group continued to appear in the car. I gave up for half an hour. When I went back out and turned on the car, the correct group of contacts appeared in the car, and the undesired group did not.

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May 14, 2021 5:25 PM in response to R_55a

In case anyone is curious, the answer is a setting in the iPhone. Go Settings>Bluetooth>(name of automobile>("i" in circle)>Sync Contacts. The trick (that I still do not understand) is manipulating the bottom of this page. After I turn on "Sync Contract," the iPhone automatically chooses "All Contacts." After I de-selected "All Contacts," the iPhone chose exactly the one group of contacts that I most wanted to NOT show in my car. That group duly appeared in my car. After several more efforts at unpairing and re-pairing the car and the phone, I was able to de-select in the iPhone the undesired group of contacts and choose the one group that I do want. The undesired group continued to appear in the car. I gave up for half an hour. When I went back out and turned on the car, the correct group of contacts appeared in the car, and the undesired group did not.

May 13, 2021 7:09 AM in response to SravanKrA

What I see in my car's dashboard are all the contacts in my Contacts application. Almost all of those contacts are ones that I typed in manually over the course of the last thirty years. Two or three came from vcards that I imported. None of these contacts come from any emails. I am not aware that Contacts has any association with email accounts.

Automobile's access to my Contacts?

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