What this policy covers
This policy covers the Life in Photos iPhone app, which is in beta through Apple’s TestFlight, and this website. “We” means Roy Lo, the independent developer of Life in Photos. “You” means anyone who uses the app or visits the site.
Your photos
The app asks for access to your Photos library so it can find the moments in it. It reads your photos on your iPhone and builds its catalog of moments there. Finding and gathering moments runs on the phone itself.
Your photos stay where they already are: on your phone, and in your own iCloud if you use iCloud Photos. The app doesn’t copy your library to us, and we don’t run servers that keep your photos.
The app never deletes, moves or edits anything in your Photos library. Keep, Later and Skip only change what’s in the app. What you keep, and any titles and notes you edit, are saved inside the app on your phone.
Titles and notes
Each moment comes with a title and a short note, written by an AI model: Muse Spark, made by Meta. This is on by default. A setting to turn it off is coming in a later version.
To write them, the app sends the AI model:
- Up to five small previews of the moment’s photos, with location and camera data removed.
- A short description of the moment: the place name, the time of day, how many people appear, what seems to be happening, and the names of any people you’ve labelled in the Photos app.
These requests go through our own account with Meta, so you don’t need an account of your own. The model sends back a title and a note, which you can change. We use the requests only to write that title and note, and Meta handles them under its terms for developers who use its models.
Place names
To name where a moment happened, the app sends the approximate location of a group of photos to Apple’s location service and gets a place name back. The place names are saved inside the app on your phone.
This website and the beta
The beta waitlist
When you join the beta, we keep your email address so we can send you a welcome email and your TestFlight invite. We use it for nothing else, and you can ask us to remove it at any time.
Site analytics
We count a few events on this site, such as a page view or a waitlist signup, along with the campaign that brought you here, if there was one. These counts include only the domain of an email address, never the full address. We don’t record sessions or set analytics cookies.
TestFlight
Apple runs TestFlight. When you install the beta, Apple may share information with us as the app’s developer, such as your email address and basic crash and usage reports, under Apple’s privacy policy.
How long we keep things
- Everything the app saves stays on your phone until you delete it or delete the app.
- We keep your waitlist email until you ask us to remove it.
- Site analytics are kept for PostHog’s standard retention period.
Your choices
- You can turn off the app’s access to your photos at any time in the iPhone’s Settings.
- Deleting the app removes everything it saved on your phone. Your Photos library is untouched either way.
- You can leave the waitlist through the link in any email we send, or by writing to us.
- Depending on where you live, you may have the right to see, correct or delete the information we hold about you. Write to us and we’ll help.
Children
Life in Photos is made for parents. The app and this site are not meant for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information from them. Family photos, including photos of your children, stay on your phone as described above.
Security
The app keeps its data in its own private storage on your phone, protected by your iPhone’s security. Requests to the services above are sent over encrypted connections.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top. If the change is significant, we’ll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect.
Contact us
Questions, or a request about your information: contact@hackerker.com.