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I have an old iPhone with an empty address book for testing dodgy apps that require contacts access, I use that for sending Clubhouse invites. OTOH, Clubhouse seem work fine on my primary phone, where I haven't given it contacts access.

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For Android I can recommend "Shelter"[1] which lets you setup a work profile, so you dont have to share your contacts, files, etc.. Downside: If you have already a work profile, it does not work (Android allows only one work profile)

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/

nice find.

is there a list of known existing "big brother" apps ? or is it just as good to look at app permissions to figure this out ?

That means some Chinese apps: https://github.com/PeterCxy/Shelter#features--use-cases

If your invitees don't also have a spare iPhone, what's the point of inviting them? They'll have the same problem with no workaround?

You don't need to grant the Clubhouse app access to your contacts to use it. ATM, that's only needed to invite people.

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