The short version
Task Focus does not sell, rent, or share your personal information. Your task titles, selected apps, and settings are stored on your device. Unless you switch it off, the app sends anonymous usage counts — such as “a focus was finished” — that never include your tasks or the apps you pause. If you leave iCloud syncing on, your finished sessions and settings also travel between your own devices through the private database of your own iCloud account, encrypted. The developer operates no server, does not receive your history or settings, and cannot read any of it.
Information stored on your device
Tasks and focus state
The current task title, start time, completion state, and whether app protection is active are stored locally so Task Focus and its Live Activity can work. A task title may appear on your Lock Screen or Dynamic Island when you start a focus session.
App and website selections
If you use app protection, your Screen Time selection is saved locally as Apple-provided opaque tokens. Task Focus uses those tokens to pause your choices during a session. The developer cannot use them to identify or view your activity in other apps.
Settings and local measurements
Preferences such as onboarding completion, check-in settings, purchase entitlement, and selected support options are stored locally. Task Focus also keeps aggregate counters on your device, such as how many focus sessions you have finished. These counters do not include task titles or selected apps. How they are shared is described under Usage counts.
Your finished sessions
When a focus session ends, Task Focus records it — what the session was for, when it ran, how it ended, and whether it paused anything. This history lives on your device. Task Focus Pro keeps it for good; without Pro the app keeps the current week.
Usage counts
What is sent
To learn where the app helps and where people get stuck, Task Focus sends anonymous usage signals to TelemetryDeck, a privacy-focused analytics service based in the EU. Each signal is one of a fixed list of events — for example that a focus was started or finished, that Screen Time access was granted, that a step of the welcome guide was shown, that the Pro screen was opened, or that Pro was bought — together with the app version, iOS version, device model, and language.
What is never sent
Your task titles, the apps and websites you pause, your history, your name, your Apple Account, and your advertising identifier are never part of a signal. The app has no way to put any of them into one.
How it stays anonymous
Signals carry a salted, one-way hash of an identifier for this installation instead of anything that identifies you, so they cannot be linked back to a person. They are not used for advertising or tracking, and they are not combined with data from other apps or companies.
Switching it off
Turn off Share anonymous usage counts in the app’s Settings tab. From then on nothing is sent, and nothing that happens while it is off is sent later.
iCloud sync
What syncs, and to whom
If you are signed in to iCloud and leave syncing on, Task Focus carries two things between your own devices: your finished focus sessions, and your app settings. Nothing else. It does this through Apple's CloudKit, in the private database of your personal iCloud account — not a server belonging to the developer, because there is no such server. The developer cannot read, copy, or recover any of it.
Both are written to CloudKit as encrypted fields, which means Apple cannot read their contents either. Your history is yours in the literal sense: it sits in your account, encrypted, and the only people who can see it are you and whoever holds your unlocked devices.
What never leaves the device
Your Screen Time selection is not synced. The opaque tokens that represent your paused apps stay on the device that chose them, and choosing apps on one iPhone does not move that choice to another.
Turning it off, and taking it with you
Syncing can be turned off in the app's settings, after which everything stays on the single device. You can also export your history as a file you keep, whatever you decide to use next.
Permissions you can choose
Screen Time
Task Focus requests individual Family Controls authorization only if you choose apps or websites to pause. This access is used solely to apply and remove shields for your selected items. You can turn the feature off or revoke authorization in iOS Settings.
Notifications
If you enable gentle check-ins, Task Focus schedules local notifications on your device. The notification can include your current task title. You can disable check-ins in the app or notifications in iOS Settings.
Live Activities
Task Focus uses Apple’s ActivityKit to show your task and elapsed time on the Lock Screen and, on supported devices, the Dynamic Island. Live Activity content is handled by iOS and stays within the app’s local experience.
In-app purchases
Task Focus Pro is a non-consumable, one-time in-app purchase processed by Apple through StoreKit. Apple handles payment information and purchase records under its own privacy policy. Task Focus receives only the transaction information needed to confirm and restore your Pro entitlement; the developer does not receive your card or billing details.
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Retention and your control
App information remains on your device until it is replaced through normal use or you delete the app and its local data. You can end an active focus session at any time, turn off app protection and notifications, erase your history from within the app, or delete Task Focus to remove its locally stored information.
Anything that synced is held in your own iCloud account. Turning syncing off stops anything further from being written; removing the copy Apple holds is done the same way as for any other app, in iOS Settings under your name, iCloud, and the list of apps using iCloud.
Because the developer does not receive your app data, there is no developer-held task history or profile to access, export, or delete. Anonymous usage counts cannot be traced back to you, so they cannot be looked up or removed per person either.
Children’s privacy
Task Focus does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. The app’s Screen Time authorization is provided and controlled by Apple’s operating system.
Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated if Task Focus changes how it works or to clarify its practices. The effective date at the top of this page will be updated when material changes are published.
Questions
If you have a privacy question, contact Sascha Thiele at sascha.thiele@pm.me.