Navigator: contacts property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

The contacts read-only property of the Navigator interface returns a ContactsManager interface which allows users to select entries from their contact list and share limited details of the selected entries with a website or application.

Value

A ContactsManager object. Two successive calls return the same object.

Examples

The following code checks whether the Contact Picker API is supported.

js
const supported = "contacts" in navigator && "ContactsManager" in window;

Specifications

Specification
Contact Picker API
# dom-navigator-contacts

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile server
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Node.js
contacts
Experimental
Chrome – No support
Chrome
footnote No support
Edge – No support
Edge
footnote No support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote
footnote See bug 1756767
Opera – No support
Opera
footnote No support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 80 (Release date: 2020-02-04)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote
footnote See bug 1756767
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 57 (Release date: 2020-03-30)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS 14.5 (Release date: 2021-04-26)
disabled
disabled From version 14.5 users must explicitly set the Contact Picker API preference.
Samsung Internet – Partial support
Samsung Internet 14 – 21 (Release date: 2021-04-17)
footnote Removed in 22 and later
footnote Partial support
footnote This API was exposed but failed upon opening a contact selector.
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 80 (Release date: 2020-02-04)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support
Node.js – No support
Node.js
footnote No support

Legend

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Full support
Full support
Partial support
Partial support
No support
No support
Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
See implementation notes.
User must explicitly enable this feature.

See also