Edit: A lot of people are saying this wasn’t enabled for them, but maybe it’s a good time to double-check?
My source is this Tumblr post, which caused me to check my settings because I just got the latest major update.
I found these settings enabled in my discord app:
I know ideally one wouldn’t use Discord at all, but so many of the nice little people in my phone are on Discord.
BTW it’s never a good idea to allow apps access to your contacts, other than your actual phone and SMS apps.
Stay safe!
Mine didn’t have this enabled
Mine also didn’t have this enabled
Do you have the latest version? This is 207.23 on Android.
Both settings were enabled for me.
I did not have it updated! I was on 192 something. However, I just updated it now and checked and the settings are still not enabled. So it did not change my settings on me. I previously had them disabled and they are still disabled after update.
Someone in my discord server also said it wasn’t enabled for him. This is messing with my mind because I feel confident I would never have enabled such a thing! I’m always so mindful of not letting apps access my phone contacts.
Tinfoil hat time, but there’s a possibility it does flip the setting for some users but not all. If they unilaterally changed a privacy setting to just take and share data it would get SLAMMED. But if it’s just like… 1/3 of the users and everyone else says no, that’s not happening then they can get away with a lot. Not saying that’s what’s happening. But I’m not saying it’s not what’s happening.
I wouldn’t be terribly surprised! This makes me feel that perhaps it was good to post this. The more people check this setting, the less discord would be able to benefit from such a strategy. In any case, it never hurts to review one’s privacy settings from time to time.
Same. I just got the update the other day. This setting is not enabled for me.
The “Sync Contacts” setting is weird. You can toggle it on, but it doesn’t gain or ask for the OS permissions on Android. There’s a brief message saying you have to give it the permission. No idea why they didn’t just use the built in SDK to ask for the permission.
This whole thing is weird. Two people have commented saying it’s not enabled for them, but I feel certain I didn’t enable it myself, and it was enabled for me after the latest update.
Edit: Someone in a discord server said it wasn’t enabled for them either so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was enabled for me and I’m very glad I saw this post so I could disable it. I would have never known it existed.
It was disabled for me.
Stranger still, the other screenshot you posted did have the “Allow contacts to add me” checkbox checked, but it only appears when you tap “Add Friends.” When you leave that screen and return, the checkbox is always checked. It makes me think it’s a setting solely applicable to that screen, like just for the “Find Friends” button, and not to your profile as a whole. IDK if that even makes sense.
This is making my head hurt, but the checkbox hasn’t re-checked itself after I left and returned. That is so odd.
Did Discord hire Google’s laid off UX designers or something? Jesus Christ.
Weird inconsistencies aside, this whole new design is pretty terrible imo. It feels pretty out of touch with how people actually use and navigate the platform.
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I wonder if this difference in experience might have something to do with privacy laws in different countries. I’m in the US.
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My phone’s a S21 as well (well, S21 FE), and I’m in South Dakota. I’ve had my account since 2017.
Someone from the EU itt reported that they had the settings enabled like I did, so I now think the location hypothesis is wrong. Must be just A/B testing or whatever it’s called, or possibly something more nefarious.
Thanks for this. It was on for me and I am the same as you with regards to apps getting to read my contacts.
For context I am in the EU and am using an iPhone.
Thanks for letting me know! I was starting to feel like I was alone, although clearly it’s happening to some of us, based on our experience and the tumblr post.
I also unticked the two things below, which told me I can’t get experimental features if I do so. Who knows how they label stuff internally, maybe they have something new in regards to contact scanning and we got „volunteered for testing“?
Am also with you in the situation that discord isn’t my first choice, but one big community I engage in is there.
It never gave me a message about experimental testing when I disabled it lol. Discord must be doing some real deep testing right now because so many users are having slightly different experiences.
This was enabled because you enabled it. Nobody else is experiencing this my guy.
If you didn’t give it permission it can’t read contacts. That’s an explicit permission request on both iOS and Android: You can’t just scrape someone’s contacts.
Suuuure, and the people on tumblr, and the other people in this thread who’ve had it enabled.
This is some weird, rude, reddit-tier gaslighting arrogance, mY gUy. Totally unchill and uncalled for.
Don’t believe me, idgaf, and don’t ever speak to me again.
This is literally my job.
I’m a professional app developer.
I agree. You’re wrong.
Mine didn’t have it enabled, but I think it’s because I denied its contacts permission request on iOS. That’s probably why some people don’t have it.
Just to throw in my two cents… I’m on iOS version 207 (which appears to be the latest) and this setting was not on for me.
I checked my discord, and i think this is a case of discords shitty ui, not changing privacy settings. Yes, my checkbox in that exact location was allowing other people to find based on phone number contamination. However, when i visited the privacy page that i did know existed, that permission was still turned off for me.
Ugh I hate when that kinda shit happens
The bug is definitely known; and a fix is probably being worked on.
But I will say that it does in fact turn on the setting.
