Where Was I? for iPhone

Privacy policy

Last updated November 10, 2026

The short version: your shelf lives on your iPhone. There’s no account, no ads and no tracking. When you ask for a recap, an answer or a title search, the app sends only what that request needs to our recap service, and we don’t keep it tied to you.

What stays on your iPhone

The titles on your shelf, where you stopped, your notes, your recaps, your reminders, your badges and your settings are stored on your device. Reminders are local notifications scheduled by your iPhone; nothing about them is sent anywhere. Deleting the app deletes all of it.

What the app sends, and when

• Building a recap: the title, its type, where you stopped, any note you added, the recap length you chose, and a random ID created for this install of the app.
• Asking a question: the same details as a recap, plus your question, the recap you already have, and your last few questions in that conversation so follow-ups make sense.
• Searching for a title: what you typed and the type of title you’re looking for. Popular searches are cached for a few days so they come back faster.
• Covers: the app downloads cover images straight from the database that listed them (see below), so that service sees an ordinary image request from your device.

The app never sends your name, email address, contacts, location, or anything else from your device. We don’t use advertising identifiers and there are no analytics or advertising tools in the app.

How the recap service uses it

• Writing recaps and answers. Our service runs on Cloudflare and passes your request to Anthropic’s Claude AI model, which writes the recap or answer. For titles the model doesn’t know well, it may search the web for public summaries and reviews of that title. Those searches are about the title, not about you. Anthropic’s commercial terms don’t allow it to train its models on this data.
• Saving recaps for everyone. A finished recap is saved by title and spot, for up to 60 days, so the next person who asks for the same thing gets it instantly. It isn’t linked to you or your install ID.
• Keeping usage fair. To enforce daily limits, the service counts requests per install ID and per network address. The address is stored only as a scrambled (hashed) value, and the counts expire after 48 hours.
• Keeping it running. Our logs record the type of title, counts, timings and error types only: never titles, notes, questions, install IDs or network addresses.

Title databases

Title search and covers come from these services, which have their own privacy policies:

• Open Library for books, comics and manga
• TVmaze for TV and anime
• TMDB for movies
• IGDB for games

What we don’t do

• We don’t sell or share your information for advertising.
• We don’t build profiles of what you read, watch or play.
• We don’t require or offer an account.

Children

Where Was I? isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information from them.

Your choices

You decide what to add and when to build a recap or ask a question; nothing is sent until you do. Notes are optional. Reminders and nudges are off until you turn them on, and you can turn them off at any time in the app’s Settings or in iOS Settings. Because we don’t keep requests tied to you, there’s no personal record for us to hand over or delete, but you can write to us with any request.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. Significant changes will also be noted in the app’s release notes.

Contact

Easy Mode · support@easymodeapps.com