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🏳️‍⚧️ We did it fam. Pronouns field in Contacts in iOS 17 beta. #WWDC23 

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Tobias Horvath

@matthewbischoff @agiletortoise Well it clearly states that they are not shared with Apple or third party developers. Considering contacts is one of the things that are an interoperable standard and not end-to-end encrypted, the statement would be false if they actually added it to CNContact. It's a local thing for the system to refer to you correctly. Not sure which privacy stance (and I think it's a privacy stance) made them decide this. I'm sure we'll learn more. Radar appreciated.

Ava 🏳️‍⚧️

@matthewbischoff @jeremyburge Does this mean they updated the version of vCard they use?

If so, I have some Feedbacks/radars I can close :P

mb

@avakining I’ll check in the beta later in the week.

Pete Carr

@matthewbischoff amazing! /me waits for tabloids to mention “woke” iOS update to respond with “It’s been woke for years with sleep tracking.”

wakest ⁂

@matthewbischoff if they are not shared with Apple or 3rd party developers where do the pronouns go? I guess thats implying they are e2ee but somehow I can't picture how that would actually work in all the places I would want to have a pronoun shown

Hypolite Petovan
@liaizon @matthewbischoff I assume you add specific placeholders in your app strings and they are replaced at runtime by the values you provided, without being directly accessible by app developers.
skze :nonbinary_flag:

@matthewbischoff i am laughing at the idea that they may want to do this for other languages at some point… and well, in german it takes 13 pages of tables

iHuman :kirby:

@matthewbischoff is that for your pronouns, or for people in your contacts?

Dillon

@matthewbischoff what is this content can you show me how to operate money making tactics
A man to mold me to say guided report note I'm in need of thing like a portfolio and how to use it like a resume

Patrizia

@chelming @matthewbischoff They look like free-form text entry fields, so I would imagine so.

Patrizia

@matthewbischoff It's also impressive is that the example sentences don't use he/him...

mb

@patrizia they instantly update as soon as you enter a pronoun

mb

@corsairstw miss me with the transphobia ✌️

Bill Graefe

@matthewbischoff seems an oversight until pointed out. Was it? Not sure how it could be though.

mb

@billgraefe Not an oversight. It just a lot of organization internally and on external mailing lists like the vCard spec to make it happen.

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