How does Detox handle my privacy and data?

Detox is built on top of Apple's Screen Time framework, which is the strictest privacy model on iOS for an app like ours. Most of what you'd worry about other apps tracking, we literally can't see.

What Detox cannot see

Two big things, both worth saying clearly.

We can't see which specific apps or websites you've added to your Monitored Apps list. When you pick apps in Apple's Family Activity Picker, iOS gives Detox opaque tokens, not names. We know there are five things on your list; we don't know if those are Instagram, TikTok, or your bank app. We never have, and we never will.

We can't see what you do inside any app. We only know how much time you spent on a token (per Apple's Screen Time API). We don't know whether you spent the hour on Instagram scrolling, messaging, or watching videos. We just see the total time on that token.

This is by design. iOS gates app-blocking apps behind FamilyControls precisely so the blocker can't see what you're blocking or what you're doing in it.

Practical consequences:

• Support can't tell you "you have Instagram in your monitored list". Only you can see your selection by opening the picker in the app.
• We can't share or export your selection, because we don't have it.
• Even our own teammates looking at your account in the backend see counts and durations, not app names or in-app activity.

What Detox does see

Some things we do collect, mostly to make the app work and to compute your Progress page:

• Account info if you sign in with Apple: an email, your name, your date of birth (if you provided one).
• Subscription status: whether you're trial / monthly / yearly / lifetime, the renewal date, etc. (This comes from Apple via our payment infrastructure.)
• Usage events for the Progress page: how long the screen time bucket fired, when, on which tokens. Tokens are opaque to us; we don't know which specific apps they map to.
• Baseline information you reported: your age, your screen time before Detox (if you entered them).
• Block configurations: that you have one Scheduled Block, what its time window is, etc. (Schedule details, not the apps it blocks.)

We use this minimum set to render Progress, restore your subscription on a new device, and give you support when you reach out.

What Detox does not collect

To name the things we explicitly don't do:

• We don't read the content of any app you use.
• We don't track your location.
• We don't see your messages, photos, contacts, or other Apple personal data.
• We don't sell or share your data with advertisers.

Third-party services we use

We use a few standard third-party services to make Detox work: payments (RevenueCat with Apple), error monitoring (Sentry), and product analytics. None of them sell your data. The full list of vendors and what each one receives is in our Privacy Policy.

Where your data is stored

Your block configurations, monitored apps tokens, and recent screen time events are stored on your device, not on our servers. The Progress page does its calculations locally from that data.

Server-side, we keep the account-level data (email, subscription status, baseline values) so we can recognize you across devices and reconnect you to your purchase if you reinstall.

Deleting your data

If you want your account removed from our servers, open Detox → Settings → Other settings → Delete your account. This removes the server-side account data we hold about you.

Note that this is separate from cancelling your subscription. Cancelling stops future charges (see How do I cancel my subscription?). Deleting your account removes the data we hold but does not automatically cancel an active subscription.

Local data on your device (blocks, configurations, recent events) remains until you uninstall the app, regardless of whether you delete your account.

The full Privacy Policy

For the legal version with the complete list, open Detox → Settings → Other settings → Privacy Policy.

Related

• How do I block specific apps and websites?
• How do I cancel my subscription?

Updated on: 22/05/2026