Last updated 21 August 2026.
Inner Light collects nothing. There is no account, no sign-up, no server, no analytics, no advertising, and no cross-app tracking. Everything the app knows about you stays on your iPhone.
We have no database of users, because there are no users to store. Nothing you do in Inner Light is transmitted to us, and we could not read it even if we wanted to.
What stays on your device
- Your practice log — which routine you ran, when, how long, and whether you finished it, paused it or skipped it
- Your streak and the state of your energy orb
- The schools and routines you have opened or chosen
- Your optional daily reminder time
- The result of an optional energy check-in, stored as a reading only — never as an image
- Preferences such as whether the spoken guide is muted
- Your subscription entitlement state
This lives in the app's own sandbox on your device and in a shared App Group container, so the home-screen widget can read your streak. It never leaves your phone through Inner Light.
The camera, and what happens to the photo
The energy check-in is entirely optional — the whole app works without ever granting camera access.
If you use it, the front camera captures a single still frame. That frame is analysed on your device using Apple's Core Image framework and is then discarded from memory. It is never written to disk, never added to your photo library, never uploaded, and never seen by anyone. Only the resulting reading — a colour and a short label — is saved.
There is no face recognition and no facial identity profile. We do not use the camera to identify you, and we do not build a biometric template of any kind.
Notifications and the lock screen
If — and only if — you choose to set a daily reminder, Inner Light schedules a local notification at your chosen time, and may place a single Live Activity on your lock screen shortly beforehand. Both are generated on your device. There is no remote push, no server involvement, and no background upload. If you set no reminder, neither happens.
Sound and voice
Routines play an ambient soundscape and a quiet spoken guide. The sound is produced on your device and streamed from no server. The voice uses Apple's built-in speech synthesiser, running locally.
The app declares the background audio capability for one reason: so a routine keeps playing when your screen locks mid-practice. The audio session starts only after you begin a routine and stops when the routine ends or you close the player.
Inner Light never requests microphone access and cannot listen to you.
What Apple handles, not us
- Subscription purchases, free trials, renewals, billing and Restore Purchases — handled by the App Store. We receive no payment details, no name, and no email address.
- iCloud backup of the app's local data, if you have iCloud backup switched on for your device. That is governed by Apple's privacy policy, not ours.
What Inner Light does not do
- No analytics or crash-reporting SDKs
- No advertising and no ad identifiers
- No cross-app or cross-site tracking
- No selling or sharing of personal data — there is none to sell
- No accounts, logins or email collection
- No collection of health, fitness, location, contacts or biometric data
Deleting your data
Individual practice sessions can be deleted or edited inside the app. Deleting Inner Light from your iPhone removes everything else — the practice log, the streak, the orb, and every preference. Because none of it was ever sent anywhere, there is nothing left for us to erase on your behalf.
Children
Inner Light is not directed at children under 13 and knowingly collects no personal data from anyone, of any age.
A note on the practices
Inner Light teaches traditional and evidence-based practices. Traditional practices are labelled as traditional. Nothing in the app diagnoses, treats or cures any condition, and none of it replaces care from a qualified health professional. Routines involving cold, heat, breath retention or physical movement carry safety notes — please read them, and stop if anything hurts.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version is published at this address with a new effective date.
Contact
Privacy questions are welcome on the support page, or as an issue at github.com/canayan1/MorningReset/issues.