Tend Privacy Policy

Tend is a reminder app for tasks, shopping, appointments and medication. It is built so that your information stays on your iPhone. We (the developer) do not run servers for Tend, do not have accounts, and never receive your data.

What stays on your iPhone

Your tasks, lists, places, medications, dose history and conversations with the assistant are stored in a private database inside Tend on your device. The assistant uses Apple’s on-device model (Apple Intelligence) or Tend’s built-in parser; your messages are processed on the iPhone and are not sent to us or anyone else. Speech is recognized on device. Photos of pill bottle labels are read on device and deleted right after.

What leaves your iPhone, only if you choose

iCloud sync (optional): copies your data to your own private iCloud database so your devices match. It is stored by Apple under your Apple Account; we cannot read it.

Shared lists (optional): a list you share goes to iCloud and to the people you invite. Only that list’s title, notes, date and items are shared.

Caregiver sharing (optional): if you share with a caregiver, they can see your medication names, doses, times and the doses you’ve logged for the last 30 days. They cannot change anything. You can stop sharing at any time.

Things you send yourself: if you share a medication summary or export, it goes only where you send it from the iOS share sheet.

Permissions

Tend asks for notifications, alarms, calendar, reminders, microphone and speech recognition, camera, location, motion and Face ID only for the features you turn on, and uses them only on your device for those features.

Location. “While Using” is for places you save, like the pharmacy; iOS itself watches for them. “Always” is asked for only if you turn on fall detection on the iPhone: it is the one way iOS lets an app keep reading the motion sensor with the screen off. Tend throws every position away the moment it arrives, keeps no record of where you are or have been, and sends nothing about location anywhere.

Apple Health

If you connect Apple Health (iPhone with iOS 26 or later), Tend reads only the medications you allow in Health's own permission sheet, and the doses you log for them. Tend never writes to Health. What Tend reads from Health stays on your iPhone: it is not synced to iCloud, not shared with caregivers or anyone else, and never used for advertising. You can turn access off at any time in Settings › Health › Data Access & Devices › Tend.

If you turn on Readings and mood, readings you say or type (blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, how you feel) are saved to Apple Health. Tend may read blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, falls, walking steadiness and sleep from Health, only to show them in the medication summary you choose to share with a doctor, and to time a morning reminder after you wake. Tend never sends any of this anywhere.

With Readings and mood on, Tend may also read Apple’s walking measures (speed, step length, asymmetry) for that same summary, and lets Health wake it to tell you of a low walking-steadiness result. Nothing leaves your iPhone.

Falls and “I’m OK”

If you turn on fall detection on the iPhone, Tend reads the motion sensor on your phone to notice what looks like a fall, and asks “Did you fall?”. The motion readings are used in the moment and never stored. If you share your medications with a caregiver and nobody answers within a minute, or you tap “I need help”, the time and your answer go to that caregiver through your own iCloud. Tend never calls emergency services and never decides on its own that you fell: it asks you. If your Apple Watch detects a fall, the same goes to your caregiver, and the Watch’s Emergency SOS works exactly as Apple designed it, with or without Tend.

The daily “I’m OK” tap, and the time you chose, go to your caregiver through your own iCloud, so they can be told if it hasn’t come. The phone number for “I need help” stays on your iPhone.

What we collect

Nothing. Tend has no analytics, advertising, tracking or crash-reporting services. Purchases of Tend Plus are handled by Apple; we receive no personal information about you from them.

Children

Tend is not directed to children under 13 and collects no information from anyone.

Deleting your data

Settings › Erase all data in Tend deletes everything on your iPhone. Deleting the app does the same. Data you synced to iCloud can be removed in iOS Settings › Apple Account › iCloud › Manage Storage.

Contact

Questions: eyalkz@gmail.com