contacts don't always load on iOS 10.2

[mlevkovsky]

Some users of our app were saying how they can no longer load contacts.
It used to work and now it just doesn't for them.

The only common thread that I was able to find between them is that they are on iOS 10.2
However, I am also using 10.2 and it loads fine.

Unfortunately I can't repro this.
I was wondering if anybody else was experience this issue :/

[joshuapinter]

@mlevkovsky Anything iOS 9.0 and above should work just fine. I'm on iOS 10.2 and it works great.

One thing I would check is making sure that they have the Contacts permissions enabled on their phone.

If you can get me more information, we can debug this together.

[mlevkovsky]

@joshuapinter it works great for me as well (awesome library btw)
I am double checking that permissions are enabled with the users although I would be surprised that that's the issue (since they use it before)
I wish I had more details, feels like I'm flying blind 😞

[joshuapinter]

@mlevkovsky I know the feeling. 🙈 But seriously let me know what you find out and I'll get on it.

(And thanks for the compliment.) 👍

[mlevkovsky]

ya permissions are not the issue it seems. The user told me that it was working just fine and then stopped. Going to keep digging but not even sure what to ask them at this point

[joshuapinter]

Ask what it's doing: i.e. does it just show a spinner with "Loading Contacts" or does it go blank or anything?

[joshuapinter]

Also, depending on if your app's data is saved, maybe try and reinstall and see if that helps.

[mlevkovsky]

It's a fresh install, that's the weird part.
I got a screenshot from the user and it's just blank a blank page, which is odd.
So far this has been reported by 2 users. Very weird

[joshuapinter]

@mlevkovsky Strange. Keep me posted on any updates.

[mlevkovsky]

@joshuapinter will do for sure

[mlevkovsky]

@joshuapinter ok so I updated my xcode to 10.2 and I let Xcode update my swift version to the latest one.
Now the RNUnifiedContacts.swift won't build. I'm not sure if it's related or not to the issues some users are having.

[joshuapinter]

@mlevkovsky Follow the new instructions on the README. They changed the way things build in XCode.

[mlevkovsky]

lol of course they did.
thanks for the heads up!

[mlevkovsky]

@joshuapinter hmm ok so I re-added and re-installed the library but now, whenever I try to access the contacts I get this error
Unhandled JS Exception: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'UnifiedContacts.requestAccessToContacts')
and when I try to console.log the unified actions the object itself is undefined :/

[joshuapinter]

@mlevkovsky And when you added it, did you add the individual files, not the directory?