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That all makes sense. Thanks to everyone who weighed in, both on & off the list. -- dkm On 2017-02-01 2:30 PM, Miller, Matthew wrote: > What this is asking for is the ability for the Voicemail App to access the contacts app on your phone and therefore tell you the name instead of the phone number by itself. Allow will give you the name (contact info you entered) in the voicemail app. Deny will mean all phone numbers will show as just a phone number with no contact info ever. > > This would also apply to pictures and things that can be linked. This is the future of security. When any app, including built-in, tries to access another app you get this notification. It's less important on apps you trust but is a big deal when you try to test a new app that you don't trust and it's asking for Contacts access when it's supposed to be an alarm clock (for example). In the case of Photos you can assign a picture to a contact. Allow would let the picture show and Deny not. > > Matt Miller > > -----Original Message----- > From: David McFarlane [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 2:08 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [MSUNAG] OT: Allow voicemail to access your contacts? > > This is off topic, but I don't know who else to ask (none of the hits on Google had anything to say about this). > > This morning my wife decided to set up the voicemail on her new Android phone, and it asked the question, "Allow voicemail to access your contacts?", with options to Allow or Deny. We did not know how to respond. What do we gain or lose by saying Allow? What do we gain or lose by saying Deny? > > Forging ahead regardless, we then got a similar question about allowing voicemail to access photos, etc. Same puzzles: What do we gain or lose by saying Allow, and what do we gain or lose by saying Deny? > > Anyone want to weigh in? > > Thanks, > -- dkm >