How to Manage Visibility

Step-by-step guide for controlling what each contact can see.

Overview

A paper business card has exactly one privacy setting: whoever holds it sees all of it. Vauchi splits that decision down to the field. Every field on your card is, for every contact, one of three things: visible to everyone, visible to a chosen few, or hidden from all. Show your work email to colleagues, your personal phone to friends, hide your home address from everyone else — and change your mind later without reprinting anything.

The rule that matters: visibility is per field, per contact. Everything else in this guide is shortcuts on top of that.

Change What One Contact Sees

Step 1: Open Contact

1. Go to Contacts
2. Tap on the contact you want to modify

Step 2: Find Visibility Settings

1. Scroll down to "What They Can See"
2. You'll see a list of all your fields

Step 3: Toggle Fields

• Enabled (green): They can see this field
• Disabled (gray): They cannot see this field

Tap any field to toggle it.

Step 4: Confirm

Your choice is saved at once, but the contact's copy isn't updated until they next sync or open the app. Visibility is a change to the card you publish, not a live feed into their phone — so "immediately" means immediately for you, and "soon" for them.

Show/Hide a Field for Everyone

Step 1: Go to Your Card

1. Go to Home
2. Find the field you want to change

Step 2: Open Visibility Menu

1. Tap the visibility icon (eye) next to the field
2. A menu appears

Step 3: Choose Option

• Show to all: Makes the field visible to all contacts
• Hide from all: Hides the field from all contacts
• Customize: Opens per-contact toggles

Using Labels

Setting visibility one contact at a time is honest but tedious, like addressing wedding invitations by hand. Labels — Work, Family, Friends — let you decide once for a category. But they aren't a separate permission system bolted on the side: a label is just a faster way to write the same per-contact rules. Under the hood, "show this to Family" expands to "show this to Alice, Bob, and Mum." Move someone out of Family and their access updates with them; the rule was always about the people, never the badge.

Creating a Label

1. Go to Settings > Labels
2. Tap Add Label
3. Enter a name (e.g., "Work", "Family", "Friends")
4. Tap Create

Assigning Contacts to Labels

1. Open a contact
2. Scroll to Labels
3. Tap to assign/unassign labels

Setting Visibility by Label

1. Go to Home
2. Tap the visibility icon next to a field
3. Tap Customize
4. Switch to the Labels tab
5. Toggle labels on/off

Example: Enable "Family" and "Friends", disable "Work" for your personal phone.

Common Configurations

Business Card Mode

Share only professional information:

Close Friends

Share everything with trusted contacts:

1. Create a "Close Friends" label
2. Assign trusted contacts
3. Show all fields to "Close Friends"
4. Restrict fields for everyone else

Temporary Sharing

Share a field temporarily:

1. Show the field to a specific contact
2. Complete whatever you needed
3. Hide the field again

Hiding takes effect on their side the next time they sync — quick, but not instant, so don't treat "hide" as a remote wipe of something they may already have copied down.

Checking What Someone Sees

Step 1: Open Contact

1. Go to Contacts
2. Tap on the contact

Step 2: Review Visible Fields

Look at "What They Can See":

• Enabled fields = they see these
• Disabled fields = they don't see these

Summary View

At the bottom of the contact, you'll see:

"Alice can see 3 of your 7 fields"

Default Visibility

For New Fields

When you add a new field, it's hidden by default. Nobody sees it until you choose to share it.

To share it:

1. Add the field
2. Tap the visibility icon
3. Choose who can see it

For New Contacts

When you exchange with someone new, they see only the fields you've made visible to "everyone".

Troubleshooting

Contact Still Sees Hidden Field

1. Changes sync when they open the app
2. Ask them to refresh their contacts
3. Wait a few minutes for sync

Can't Find Visibility Options

1. Make sure you're on the contact's detail page
2. Scroll down — visibility is below their card info
3. If missing, update the app

Label Changes Not Applying

1. Make sure contacts are assigned to the label
2. Check the label visibility settings
3. Try removing and re-adding the label

Tips

Be Intentional

• Review visibility when adding new fields
• Periodically audit what each contact sees
• Use labels to stay organized

Think in Categories

Group contacts by relationship type:

• Work: Professional info only
• Family: Everything
• Acquaintances: Name and email only

Start Restrictive

It's easier to show more later than to hide after sharing.

Privacy Notes

• Hidden fields simply vanish from their view — and a hidden field looks exactly like one you never had. The contact can't tell "she's hiding her address" from "she never listed an address." Absence carries no information.
• No notification fires when you hide a field. The polite cough doesn't happen; the field is just gone next time they look.
• Contacts only ever see your current card — never its history. There's no changelog of what you showed and then withdrew.
• They can't see your visibility settings, only their own resulting view.
• Hiding is per field, per contact — it withdraws access, it doesn't delete the field from your card.

For more on privacy, see Privacy Controls.