Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 9, 2026

Unfolded does not collect your data. Everything it keeps stays on your iPhone. Your fold history is also kept in your own private iCloud, where only you can see it, and syncs across the iPhones on your Apple Account.

What Unfolded keeps on your iPhone

• The date and time of each fold and unfold, your time zone offset, and whether it came from your Shortcuts automation or from the hinge while Unfolded was open.
• The date and time your charger was connected and disconnected, and Sleep Focus turned on and off, if you add those automations. They mark breaks.
• With each of these: a running number and a random id for this install of Unfolded.
• Your settings: the night window, the weekly report, and whether setup is done.
• Whether your iPhone has a hinge.
• Your Crease Check answers, each with your fold count at the time.

The hinge angle in Browse, Hinge is read live while that screen is open and never saved.

iCloud

When iCloud is on for Unfolded, your fold history is kept in the private iCloud database of your Apple Account and syncs across the iPhones you use Unfolded on, so it comes back if you reinstall Unfolded or change iPhone. With it go your lifetime unfolds and when it was last saved, for Welcome back. Apple stores them for you; we can’t see them. Your settings and your Crease Check answers never go to iCloud. To stop, turn off Unfolded in iOS Settings > your name > iCloud.

• Welcome back: a new install with no history that finds yours in iCloud brings it back to this iPhone.
• Start Fresh, on Welcome back: this iPhone starts a new history. The earlier one stays in iCloud for your other iPhones.
• Restore from iCloud…, in Settings, iCloud Sync: it replaces the history on this iPhone with the one in iCloud.

In the background

The Shortcuts automations you add (When display is Closed: Log Fold, When display is Opened: Log Unfold, and the charger and Sleep Focus ones) run on your iPhone and record the time there, as above.

Notifications

Unfolded has one notification, off until you turn it on: the weekly report, on Monday morning, with last week’s daily average. Your iPhone makes it. There are no push notifications and no server.

Export

Export data, in Settings, makes CSV files of your events and daily totals. They leave Unfolded only through the iOS share sheet, to the place you pick.

What Unfolded doesn’t do

• It doesn’t create an account.
• It doesn’t use the internet, except your own iCloud (above). Links you tap, such as Add for an automation or Support, open in Shortcuts or Safari.
• It doesn’t use analytics, advertising or tracking, and it contains no third-party code.
• It doesn’t share your data with anyone, including us.

Widgets

The Unfolded widgets only read today’s numbers from your iPhone.

Backups

If you back up your iPhone, Unfolded’s data is included in that backup, like any other app’s.

Deleting

Deleting Unfolded removes its data from your iPhone, except two items in your iPhone’s Keychain, which stay on this iPhone and never sync, so a reinstall finds your history in iCloud:

• The random number that names your history.
• iCloud Sync’s notes: the random numbers of histories this iPhone has left.

Neither says who you are. Your history stays in your iCloud, so it can come back; you can delete it there in iOS Settings, under iCloud storage.

Children

Unfolded collects nothing from anyone, including children.

Contact

Write to us with the form on the Support page. Any change to this policy will be posted on this page.