Limit access to contacts on managed devices
Find out how to use Mobile Device Management (MDM) to choose which apps can access contacts.
This article is for system administrators.
Use MDM to control whether unmanaged apps can access contacts associated with managed sources. The following general restrictions apply to contacts:
Documents from managed sources appear in unmanaged destinations
Documents from unmanaged sources appear in managed destinations
These restrictions prevent unmanaged apps from accessing contacts from managed accounts, and prevent managed apps from saving contacts to the local Contacts app.
MDM can make exceptions to these rules for contacts using the following settings:
Allow unmanaged apps to access managed contacts
Allow managed apps to save contacts to the local Contacts app
Unmanaged destinations
Unmanaged apps
Unmanaged contacts and email accounts
Local storage, such as On My iPhone contacts and notes
Managed sources
Managed apps
Managed accounts
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