Privacy

Answer Letter collects nothing. There is no server to collect it to.

The short version

Answer Letter makes no network requests. Not for the model, not for analytics, not for crash reports, not for checking whether an update exists. The app contains no networking code at all, which means this is not a promise about how data is handled — it is a statement that there is no path for data to leave.

You can verify it yourself: turn on Airplane Mode and use the app normally. Nothing degrades, because nothing was ever being fetched.

Deny it network access. Nothing in Answer Letter needs the network, so refusing the permission — or switching it off later in Settings — costs you nothing at all. That is not a workaround; it is the honest test of the sentence above.

Why iOS may ask for network permission anyway

The first time you raise the keyboard, iOS may ask whether Answer Letter can use the network. Answer Letter is not what is asking.

The system keyboard is not a separate app — iOS loads it into whichever app you are typing in, and anything it reaches out for is billed to that app. You can confirm this without taking our word for it: open Apple's own Notes, start a new note, and the same dialog appears. No app can prevent it, because it is not the app doing it.

Answer Letter does turn off the parts that are documented as sending text off the device — Writing Tools, which can pass what you write to Apple's servers for rewriting, and inline predictions. Those are off because they contradict what this app is for, not because of the dialog.

The app itself links no networking framework at all. You can see it in the build: every release runs a check that fails if the binary references a networking API, links a networking library, or declares one in its Info.plist.

So: say no. The app was built to work that way.

What is collected

This corresponds to Data Not Collected on the App Store privacy label.

Where your letters live

Letters are written to a single file inside the app's own container on the device. Only Answer Letter can read it — iOS keeps that container private.

They are not synced to iCloud and Answer Letter never uploads them. They do sit in the part of the container that a device backup covers, so if you back the device up through iCloud or a computer, they are inside that backup — the same as any other app's local data, and handled under Apple's terms rather than ours. Deleting Answer Letter deletes them along with it, and there is no copy anywhere else to recover them from.

The model

Qwen3.5‑0.8B is bundled inside the app package. It is loaded from local storage and run locally on the device's GPU through Metal. Your prompts are turned into tokens in memory and never serialised anywhere except the letters file you can see.

The model's weights are fixed. Nothing you write trains it, adjusts it, or is retained by it between launches.

Sharing and copying

If you tap Share or Copy on a reply, the text goes wherever you send it, and that destination's privacy terms take over from there. That is the only way content leaves the app, and it only happens when you ask for it.

Children

Answer Letter is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone, including children. Replies come from a language model and are not filtered or reviewed; treat them the way you would treat any generated text.

Changes

If a future version ever collects anything, this page will say so before that version ships, and the App Store privacy label will change to match. Given that the app has no networking code, such a change would be a rewrite rather than a tweak.

Contact

Questions about this policy: argoodies@googlegroups.com.

Last updated 25 September 2026 · applies to Answer Letter 0.1.0 and later