In the documentation for the Contact Provider Extension contact provider it says This allows apps like Phone and Mail to provide personal names and images for incoming calls or messages when your app knows the caller or sender. Instead of adding contacts directly with the Contacts framework, your app provides read-only contact items that it can update, and which the person using the app can easily enable, disable, add, or remove. Contacts stored in Phone/Contacts are getting backed up via iCloudBackup... what about contacts provided via the Contact Provider Extension? Are they also subjected to iCloudBackup, similar to the "regular" contacts? Thanks!

In the documentation for the Contact Provider Extension contact provider it says Use the Contact Provider framework if your app manages its own contacts and wants to make them available in other apps that use the Contacts framework. Is it possible to restrict the Contact Provider Extension to provide contacts to certain applications only? For example to prevent WhatsApp and Facebook accessing the the contacts via Contact Provider Extension. Only phone and iMessage should have access. Thanks

In the documentation for the Contact Provider Extension contact provider it says. This allows apps like Phone and Mail to provide personal names and images for incoming calls or messages when your app knows the caller or sender. Will Siri be able to find and call a contact by it's name that was provided to Phone via Contact Provider Extension? Thanks!

When using Mobile Device Management (MDM), it is possible to restrict access to contacts on managed devices. Please see https://support.apple.com/en-us/101932 According to this article, contacts are considered "managed" if they come from either a managed app or a managed account. Does this principle also apply when an MDM-managed app provides contacts via the Contact Provider Extension (CPE)? Specifically, would such "managed" contacts remain inaccessible to unmanaged apps? Our goal is to ensure that unmanaged apps cannot access these contacts. Thanks!