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What stays on your device
Tasks, habits, notes, projects, preferences, and widget snapshots are stored in Clarity’s local app containers. Clarity does not require an account and does not include advertising, analytics, cross-app tracking, or a developer-operated cloud library.
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Private Family spaces
Personal tasks, habits, notes, and projects remain private on your device. Only the members, tasks, shared habits, and completions you intentionally add to a Family space are placed in that space’s private iCloud share. Apple CloudKit makes that data available only to people invited to the share.
Shared habits require the assigned person’s consent before they begin tracking. Family data is not copied to Clarity’s support database or sent to Groq. The only exception is when you deliberately use the fallback voice feature to create or assign a Family item, in which case the transcript and the minimum Family names needed to understand that command are processed as described in Voice and intelligence.
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Voice and intelligence
Clarity checks local capabilities before a voice request begins. When Apple SpeechAnalyzer and the Foundation Models framework are available for the current device and language, audio, transcription, interpretation, and structured results stay on the iPhone. This is the most private route and can work offline after Apple’s required model assets are available.
If SpeechAnalyzer is available but Foundation Models is not, transcription stays on device and Clarity sends only the transcript and request context needed for Groq to structure the action. For an open-note rewrite, that context can include the current note title and body.
If on-device speech is unavailable, Clarity sends the temporary recording through its backend to Groq for transcription, then sends the transcript and required context for interpretation. The temporary local recording is removed after the request finishes. Clarity does not use voice content for advertising, analytics, or cross-app tracking.
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Approximate weather location
If you grant When In Use location access and request weather, Clarity rounds latitude and longitude to one decimal place before requesting the current conditions from Apple WeatherKit. Clarity does not send this weather location to its own backend. After weather is displayed, the app also shows a minimal Weather link to the legal page supplied by WeatherKit.
Weather is optional. If you do not grant location permission, Clarity continues to work without it.
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Apple services
Clarity can read step count and sleep totals from HealthKit only after you connect a habit. It never writes Health data, and the values are not sent to Clarity’s backend. If you enable Calendar sync, eligible task details are written to a dedicated Apple Calendar and may synchronize according to your iCloud settings. StoreKit handles Clarity Pro subscription purchases, renewal state, and entitlement checks; Clarity does not receive payment-card details.
If you use Family, CloudKit stores the data you explicitly share in a private shared database governed by your iCloud account and Apple’s sharing controls. Removing a participant revokes their access to future shared updates.
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Voice backend and production infrastructure
Clarity’s voice backend uses short-lived technical information to authenticate requests, prevent abuse, and return a response. The app does not maintain a cloud copy of your Clarity library. The backend is used only when one or both local voice stages are unavailable. Hosting and AI processing providers may handle request metadata and the content needed to complete that request.
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Your choices
You can delete individual content inside Clarity, remove Microphone, Location, Calendar, Health, or Notification permission in iOS Settings, and delete the app to remove its local app data from that iPhone. Feedback from Settings is sent only after you tap Send feedback. It includes the category and message you enter, along with the Clarity version and build, device model, and iOS version so support can investigate. It is stored in Clarity’s private support queue and may be forwarded to the monitored support inbox. Do not include private note content. Contact the privacy address below to request deletion of submitted feedback.
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Common questions
- Does Clarity require an account?
- No. Clarity has no account, no login, and no password. Your personal library is stored in local app containers on your iPhone, and Clarity Pro entitlements follow the Apple Account you already use for the App Store.
- Does Clarity track me or show advertising?
- No. Clarity contains no advertising, no analytics SDK, and no cross-app tracking, and it does not use the App Tracking Transparency prompt because there is nothing to track.
- Do my voice recordings leave my iPhone?
- Not on supported Apple Intelligence devices and languages, where transcription and interpretation both run entirely on device. When a local stage is unavailable, Clarity uses a disclosed Groq fallback for that stage only, and only for a voice action you started. If local speech recognition is available but local interpretation is not, your audio stays on the device and only the transcript and required context are sent.
- Can you read the tasks in a shared Family space?
- No. Family spaces synchronise through your own iCloud account using CloudKit and CKShare, so shared content travels inside Apple's infrastructure rather than ours. Clarity operates no server that holds your family content.
- What happens to my data if I delete the app?
- Deleting Clarity removes its locally stored app data from that iPhone. Items written to the dedicated Clarity calendar follow your Apple Calendar and iCloud settings, and can be managed in Apple Calendar. Feedback you chose to send remains in the support queue until you request deletion.
- Is my location sent to Clarity's servers?
- No. After you grant When In Use permission, coordinates are rounded to one decimal place and passed to Apple WeatherKit to fetch current conditions. Clarity does not send weather location to its own backend.