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Actually, contacts access isn't strictly necessary! I run it with the permission disabled, and although it complains regularly, it still works. I don't have any issues with having to remember people's numbers either since they're recognisable from the profile pictures and because I talk to the same few people usually
I don’t have that kind of memory unfortunately. It seems there is similar limitation mechanism to contacts as there is for pictures on iOS, but picking each individual person I like WA to know from a list of a few hundred people is quite painful.
Ahh that makes sense, with more people involved it's harder to go by. I use Fossify Contacts, and it has an option to save contacts but to make them invisible to other apps. Perhaps that might help you somehow, I'm not sure