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Ask HN: Apple iOS “maybe” suggestion on phone numbers
1 point by q-base on Jan 23, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
Does anyone know how Apples feature of suggesting who a number you do not have in your phone book might be? I only thought it was from searching through emails locally.

I am a little bit worried seeing a suggestion today. I have a co-worker who's number I already have in my phone book who has written a message to me and another colleague whom I do NOT have in my phone book. But it correctly suggested that it might be my colleague.

This is on my private phone and I have no email from the one Apple guessed in my inbox, the only thing I have is a LinkedIn request from him, but that does not contain his phone number - so how in hell do they suggest it being him? I only thought it looked locally on my phone, but I cannot in any way see how it should find information on my phone linking that phone number to him.

The only way I can find that connection would be if they had it from potentially his iCloud account - but I would hope that they did not transmit that information. Or could he actively had selected to transmit that information?



Did your colleague say their name in the message to you?


No he did not. But it also pulled his picture, so he must have somehow set up iCloud to broadcast those informations I would guess?


Oh, iOS 13 has a little icon you can touch at the top to share that info with the other person. Ask if he did that?


Ahh that must be it. I have to ask him at work tomorrow.




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