Android 18 to restrict app access to phonebook contacts

• Google has announced privacy improvements in Android 18 to protect users from scammers and malicious actors.
• Android 18 will prevent apps from directly writing to contacts in your phonebook.
• Apps that get permission to change contacts can currently access all of them, but this will change with Android 18.
• The first components of this system will arrive with Android 17 QPR2 later this year.
• Google aims to distinguish between individual and bulk edits to enhance user privacy.