Last updated: August 2, 2026
Screen Time by Location breaks your phone usage down by the places you visit. It handles two of the most sensitive categories of data a phone holds — where you go, and how much you use your device — so it is built to keep both on your device. Nothing you record is uploaded to any server, cloud service, or third party. We operate no server and have no ability to see your data.
The following is stored locally using Apple's SwiftData framework and iOS UserDefaults, inside the app's private container. It is never transmitted anywhere and never shared with anyone:
All of the above lives exclusively on your device. Deleting the app removes it entirely, and Reset All Data in Settings clears it at any time.
The app requests Always location access because visits must be detected while the app is closed; detection that only ran while you were looking at the app would not work. It uses Apple's visit monitoring and significant-location-change services rather than continuous GPS tracking. Your location is used for one purpose only: to work out which of your own places you are at. It is never uploaded, never sold, never shared, and never combined with data from anywhere else.
The app makes exactly one kind of network request, and only when a brand-new place is detected for the first time. To give that place a name, it asks Apple's mapping services what businesses or streets are at that coordinate. This means the coordinate of a newly detected place is sent to Apple, and is handled under Apple's own privacy policy. This happens once per new place, never again for places already known, and never for your visits or your screen time. If you are offline, the place simply receives a placeholder name instead. There is no other network activity of any kind: no server of ours, no API, no cloud sync, no remote configuration.
Usage data is obtained through Apple's Screen Time frameworks (Family Controls and Device Activity) after you grant permission, using the individual authorization intended for your own device rather than the parental-control path. Apple deliberately seals this data inside the system: the component that can read your exact per-app breakdown is barred from passing any of it back to the app or to the network. The app therefore works only with measurements of your total usage, and it stores those on your device alone. Which specific apps you used is not something this app can read, store, or transmit.
The app contains no analytics tools, crash reporters, behavioral tracking frameworks, or advertising SDKs. We collect no usage statistics or telemetry of any kind. There are no ads.
There are no in-app purchases and no subscriptions. No payment information is requested, handled, or stored.
We collect no data whatsoever. Your locations, your places and your screen time never leave your device, so there is nothing for us to see, store, sell, or lose. We have no ability to identify you or to recover your data.
The app does not collect, transmit, or store personal information from any user, including users under 13. No account creation is required and no personal data leaves the device. The app is a personal-insight tool and is not designed for monitoring another person's device.
If we update this privacy policy, the revised version will be posted here with an updated date.
If you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at: andy.x.meyers@gmail.com