Handle contacts limited permission

[mvanbeusekom]

The package wasn't currently handling the new CNAuthorizationStatusLimited introduce in ios18. Older versions of ios will remain unchanged. Here's a screen recording showcasing the change

• ios 17.2

Simulator.Screen.Recording.-.iPhone.14.Pro.-.2024-10-10.at.13.43.12.mp4

• ios 18.0

Simulator.Screen.Recording.-.Logged.In.16.Pro.-.2024-10-10.at.13.46.09.mp4

List at least one fixed issue.

• [Bug]: iOS 18 CNAuthorizationStatusLimited results to PermissionStatusDenied instead of PermissionStatusLimited #1387
• [Feature request]: Support limited Contacts access and Contacts Access Button on iOS 18+ #1376

Pre-launch Checklist

• I made sure the project builds.
• I read the Contributor Guide and followed the process outlined there for submitting PRs.
• I updated pubspec.yaml with an appropriate new version according to the pub versioning philosophy, or this PR is does not need version changes.
• I updated CHANGELOG.md to add a description of the change.
• I updated/added relevant documentation (doc comments with ///).
• I rebased onto main.
• I added new tests to check the change I am making, or this PR does not need tests.
• I made sure all existing and new tests are passing.
• I ran dart format . and committed any changes.
• I ran flutter analyze and fixed any errors.

[Hari-07]

You could've left the changes you wanted/needed on the original PR instead of just taking it up

[mvanbeusekom]

You could've left the changes you wanted/needed on the original PR instead of just taking it up

True, but the thing is that I am immediately debugging the build environment and upgrading to latest Flutter and that is hard to leave to the community. I do appreciate the incentive though.

Also I feel this is not really your problem, but it is on us for not keeping the plugin up to date.

[mvanbeusekom]

I have just published version 9.4.6 of the permission_handler_apple package to pub.dev and you should be able to update your project by running flutter pub upgrade permission_handler_apple.

However I am now going through the other platforms as well and updating to the latest Flutter specs, so if you run into problems, let me know and updates for the other packages should be rolling out in a few hours.

[Pszione]

I just updated to 9.4.6 and it's working great! Thanks @mvanbeusekom
Question: when limited, can I open the system modal for the user to select more contacts?

[mvanbeusekom]

Question: when limited, can I open the system modal for the user to select more contacts?

Not sure about that, you could try to ask for permission again (haven't tried that).

However most likely you'll have to redirect the user to the iOS "Settings" (which can be opened through the openAppSettings() method).

[hexlogic]

I have an issue with this.
pubspec.yaml
permission_handler: ^11.4.0
dependency_overrides:
permission_handler_apple: ^9.4.6
When using await Permission.contacts.request() it returns that permission is permanently denied even when it was not requested yet but in settings of the app it is allowed (requested by another package)
Also when the permission wasn't requested at all by the app, it still returns that permission is not granted without any prompt to the screen.

[mvanbeusekom]

I have an issue with this. pubspec.yaml permission_handler: ^11.4.0 dependency_overrides: permission_handler_apple: ^9.4.6 When using await Permission.contacts.request() it returns that permission is permanently denied even when it was not requested yet but in settings of the app it is allowed (requested by another package)

@hexlogic did you add the necessary configuration to the Podfile to enable the contact permissions SDK (see the iOS section in the README.md for details)?

Just a remark on the side, there shouldn't be a a reason to use the dependency_overrides statement here. Simply using permission_handler: ^11.4.0 will give the latest version of all platform specific packages (or run flutter pub upgrade to update all packages).

[hexlogic]

I don't know why, but I changed manually in PermissionHandlerEnums.h

#ifndef PERMISSION_CONTACTS
    #define PERMISSION_CONTACTS 0
#endif

to

#ifndef PERMISSION_CONTACTS
    #define PERMISSION_CONTACTS 1
#endif

and it started working. I'm not Obj-C dev by any means, just tried to find a solution.

[mvanbeusekom]

That change is normally done through the Podfile (located in your projects ios folder) configuration as documented in the README.md file. This way you don't have to modify the code of the plugin.

[hexlogic]

Well, I somehow missed that part. Thank you for the hint! :) Kind regards, Eugene

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