Contacts & Groups

You decide who can reach you. DNA Connect never uploads your phone's contact list — you add people by name, and strangers need your approval before they become contacts.

Adding a contact

Tap add contact and enter your friend's name — the one they registered when creating their identity. That's it. No phone numbers, no invitation links.

Contact requests

When someone adds you, it arrives as a contact request — like the classic messengers did it. You see who is asking and choose to accept or not. Until you accept, they are not in your contact list.

Blocking

If someone bothers you, block them. The app stops their contact requests and no longer alerts you about their messages. Your blocked list lives in the Blocked tab of the Contacts screen, and you can unblock at any time.

Group chats

Groups work the way you'd expect:

1. Create a group from the Groups screen and give it a name.
2. Add people from your contacts. They get an invitation notice showing the ID of whoever added them, and can dismiss it if they're not interested.
3. Chat. Group messages are end-to-end encrypted, just like private ones — only members of the group can read them.

Everyone can see the group's member count, and any member can add people from their own contacts — so who you share a group with depends on who you share it with. Keep sensitive circles small.