Our new wallet feature allows users to access their contact information to auto-fill their shipping and billing information. Turns out users didn’t want to re-type information that already existing in their address book into our app. iOS users originally requested this feature and we included for Android users a couple of days ago. Cool, right? Nope.

Hundreds of users were angered that we turned on the feature. Their concern was that while we could allow them to select their address information from their address book we could also look at ANY information in their address book. Google’s permission and explanations tend to create this concern. Google is pretty much the Wild West as compared with Apple and their app approval process so Android users are very cautious about what they allow apps to do.

Anyway, instead of trying to explain to the hundreds of folks complaining (out of millions of users mind you) we decided to turn off the feature. You will have to re-type your shipping and billing information now. Please be sure that we never accessed your address book in the past and now that the auto-fill feature is off we STILL can’t access your address book.

iOS users, you still have the auto-fill feature since we haven’t received a single complaint.