How do I correctly use ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions method in iOS 6?

Now that the NDA has been lifted, here is my solution for this for the where you need replace a method which returns an Array. (If you’d rather not block while the user is deciding and are ready to potentially rewrite some of your existing code, please look at David’s solution below):

ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();

__block BOOL accessGranted = NO;

if (ABAddressBookRequestAccessWithCompletion != NULL) { // we're on iOS 6
    dispatch_semaphore_t sema = dispatch_semaphore_create(0);

    ABAddressBookRequestAccessWithCompletion(addressBook, ^(bool granted, CFErrorRef error) {
        accessGranted = granted;
        dispatch_semaphore_signal(sema);
    });

    dispatch_semaphore_wait(sema, DISPATCH_TIME_FOREVER);
    dispatch_release(sema);    
}
else { // we're on iOS 5 or older
    accessGranted = YES;
}


if (accessGranted) {

    NSArray *thePeople = (__bridge_transfer NSArray*)ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);
    // Do whatever you need with thePeople...

}

Hope this helps somebody…