We launched encrypted contacts last year to meet the needs of journalists that needed a safer way to store sensitive information about their contacts. Our encrypted contacts manager uses zero-access encryption and digital signatures to keep your contacts data private and verify the integrity of the data.

Now, encrypted contacts is also available on our mobile apps, so you can stay protected even on the go!

In the older versions of the ProtonMail mobile app, the contacts menu only included the contact’s name and email address (these, by necessity, are not encrypted to allow us to get your emails to their destination). If you tapped on a contact, it would simply open the email composer.

With the latest update, we have incorporated a fully functional contacts manager into the ProtonMail mobile app. You can now add additional information such as phone numbers, addresses, URLs, and notes. All of this additional information is encrypted and no one but you can access it — not even we can access it. That’s the benefit of zero-access encryption.





And just like the web version of ProtonMail Contacts, all contacts are digitally signed, meaning you’ll get a warning message if it seems an attacker may have tried to tampered with your contacts.

We’re excited to deliver the most secure mobile contacts manager, and we welcome your feedback. If you have any questions or comments for the team, don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Download ProtonMail iOS app || Download ProtonMail Android app

Best Regards,

The ProtonMail Team

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Release notes for iOS v1.8

New features:

Encrypted contacts

Contacts redesign

Bug fixes:

The warning message for a possibly spoofed email is cut off in the app

Save popup appearing behind keyboard when composing

No recipient found when sending a message via “Share” feature.

Auto-complete suggestion not showing properly

Message doesn’t open from push notification on certain occasions

Spam/Trash delete message issue

Subject reverts to (No Subject) when sending emails with image from Camera Roll attached

“Can’t load content” when sharing an app from the Apple Store

iPhone X: Sidebar bottom line separator goes over the content when scrolling

Adding an image attachment uses the wrong format on iOS 11

Badge number doesn’t update if you close the app from a message

Changed TouchID dialog address to a*****@protonmail.com format

Display name overlaps with carrier name when you open the menu on iOS 10

Message signing issue

Toast message does not show up sometimes

Improvements:

Always show the full from address on message details

Add missing translations

Disabled spellcheck in search

Update email expiration icons

Improve the error messages

Improve the local cache stability

Release notes for Android v1.8

New features:

Encrypted contacts

Contacts redesign

Bug fixes:

PIN screen not always working with correct PIN

Fix for HTML messages rendering

Draft message showing as “Null” on some occasions

Improvements: