We are disabling the Contact Book feature on Monday, July 30. After this date, you will no longer receive notifications that were previously configured using Contact Book. Creating New Contacts is Currently Disabled In preparation of this change, we disabled the ability to create new Contacts. If …

There are several layers of caching in play, but the eventual source of truth goes back to the Account object. If your Location is still returning true for contactBookEnabled then try updating the Location via Edit -> Update like I described for the Account and that should rehydrate that object and …

Thanks! Just for clarification, at some point during the next day or so all the caches will be flushed and contactBookEnabled will start returning false without the user having to go into the SmartApp or doing the workaround steps, is that right?

It could potentially be up to a week depending on the last time those objects were cached, so throughout the next week everyone will start to see that change reflected at different times individually. As mentioned anyone can force the refresh by updating their Account objects and potentially also th…

Hey looks like it the cache refresh just kicked in all my (compliant) apps switched over to push notifications. Works great!

Guess my contacts will stay configured forever. Is anyone else getting errors when trying to click the “delete” button next to the edit button when viewing your contact in IDE? “Access to graph.api.smartthings.com was denied You don’t have authorization to view this page. HTTP ERROR 403”

[image] Garrett_b: Is anyone else getting errors when trying to click the “delete” button next to the edit button when viewing your contact in IDE? This was a temporary error. SmartThings Status - Issues Logging into the Developer Portal and Connecting Third Party Services

[image] Garrett_b: Is anyone else getting errors when trying to click the “delete” button next to the edit button when viewing your contact in IDE? Try incognito mode It worked for me believe it or not

So I have to change the code on my Spruce Watering System Smartapp???

I didn’t get around to updating this before they removed it. More than one week’s notice would have helped. Presumably this is something they’ve been working on for a while, so I’m not sure why we couldn’t have gotten more of a heads up. I have a day job that has nothing to do with ST, so I work o…

[image] marktheknife: … really reminds me of the “upgrade” that killed the dashboard feature, and then it took them >12 months to release a replacement. What replacement???

Removal of Contact Book Feature

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Make developers mad and they will do what they know best, come up with workarounds. Thanks @tonesto7

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