Life Dump
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The Magic Factory LLC · last updated 21 October 2026

Life Dump turns the photos you take into a daily journal. Most of that happens on your iPhone. This page says what leaves it, where it goes and why.

Stays on your phone

Sent to write your notes

To write each day's note, the app sends a description of the day to an AI model: short descriptions of the day's photos, their times, place names, and the names you've given people and pets, plus up to twelve small, low-resolution photos. The same goes for the short lines on days from your past that you open in Memories, and for each month's cover. A letter from your pet in a drop sends only a few facts: its name, photo counts, months and a place name, no photos. To name a pile of alike photos on a page (like "watch shopping"), up to three small photos from each pile and their descriptions are sent the same way. All of it goes through our server to OpenRouter, which passes it to the model provider (OpenAI). We ask OpenRouter to use only providers that don't keep or train on it. Our server doesn't store any of it; it keeps only a daily count per install (a random id, not linked to you) to cap usage.

Apple services

Your backup

When you're signed in, your journal is backed up to our servers (run on Cloudflare) so it can come back on a new phone: your pages and notes, the descriptions, places, times and names attached to them, where each photo was taken (its latitude and longitude, as the photo itself records it), the names you've given people and pets and which photos they're in (as iCloud Photos identifiers), the day your free month started, and page-size copies of your journal photos. Your original photos and face data are not uploaded. Your backup is private to your account, encrypted in transit and at rest, and used only to restore your journal.

Sharing with a partner

If you link with a partner, you choose which people and pets to share. Your invite sends their names and a few pictures of each (one photo so your partner can tell their own phone who's meant, and some cut-outs of them to show with the invite; anyone you give the invite link to can see these until it's used or a week has passed); each phone recognises people in its own photos, and nothing about faces is sent. After that, when either of you photographs someone you share, a page-size copy of that photo (the first of each moment, a few a day of each person) goes through our servers (run on Cloudflare) to the other's phone, where it's also saved to their photo library. A video goes the same way, if it's 90 seconds or less: a smaller copy of it, with its sound. Only the two of you can fetch what you share. To let your partner's phone know a photo has arrived, and to wake the app now and then to send new ones, we keep your phone's push notification address and the name you go by. All of it is deleted with your account.

Swapping days with friends

If you link with a friend, you each see some of the other's day. You choose once what friends see: which piles of photos, which of the people you've named may be in them, and whether photos taken at home go. From then on, a page-size copy of each journal photo that fits those choices (the first of each moment), and the names you've given whoever is in it, go through our servers (run on Cloudflare) to the phones of the people you've linked with. A video on your page goes the same way if it's 90 seconds or less, as a smaller copy with its sound: the choices go by who can be seen in it, so anyone who can only be heard isn't checked. Whether a photo fits is worked out on your phone: where it was taken and anything about faces isn't sent. Photos from someone not named never go by themselves. A friend's photos stay in the app's Friends tab on your phone for three days and aren't saved to your photo library; our servers delete them after four. You can take a photo back, which deletes it from our servers and from your friends' phones the next time their app is open. An invite sends the name you typed for your friend and, when they're in your photos, one cut-out picture of them to open the invite with; anyone you give the invite link to can see these until it's used or a week has passed. As with a partner, we keep your phone's push notification address to let it know a friend's photo has arrived. To tell you when friends have posted (twice a day at most), and not about photos you've already looked at, we also keep your phone's time zone, when you last opened the Friends tab, and for the current day which friends have posted and how many photos. All of it is deleted with your account.

Testers (TestFlight and our own development builds)

While Life Dump is in testing, TestFlight builds send us how the app is running, so we can fix what's slow or broken on testers' phones: which screen, the iPhone model and iOS version, dropped frames and delays, crash and hang reports from your iPhone, how long photos take to be filed and which pile they went to (and if you moved one), which onboarding screens you saw and how long for, which permissions you gave, which model wrote a note (not the note), which drops and games you opened, how many photos a day came from the app's camera or your camera roll, and errors talking to our server. Never your photos, their descriptions, your notes, names or places. It's tied to your account once you've signed in (before that, to a random id for the app on your phone), kept for 14 days, and deleted with your account. App Store versions don't send any of it (see "Analytics and subscriptions" for what they do send).

Analytics and subscriptions

TestFlight and App Store versions send Mixpanel how people get into the app and come back: which onboarding screens you saw, sign-in, which permissions you gave, whether the widget is on your home screen, the free month and the subscription screen, invites, tonight's drop and its games, and how many photos a day were added, as numbers and short labels, with a random id for the app on your phone and your iPhone model, iOS version and the app's version. Once you've signed in, the name and email Apple gave us go with them, so we can find your account if you write to us. Never your photos, their descriptions, your notes, or the names of the people, pets and places in them, and not where you are: Mixpanel isn't told to work it out from your connection. Delete everything stops it and the id is forgotten. To handle subscriptions, the same random id, that name and email, and your App Store purchases (which plan, when it started and renews) go to RevenueCat, which checks them with Apple.

What we don't do

Deleting your data

In the app, Memories → Account → Delete everything deletes your account, your backup, your photo copies and anything sent while testing, then everything the app keeps on your phone. Or email appledeveloper@themagicfactory.co from anywhere and we'll do it. You can also stop using Sign in with Apple for Life Dump in your iPhone's Settings. Deleting the app removes everything stored on your phone except your sign-in and the day your free month started, which stay in your iCloud Keychain so you can come back to your backup, and the random id analytics and subscriptions use, kept in this phone's keychain; Delete everything removes them too.

Children

Life Dump isn't directed at children under 13.

Changes and contact

If this changes, we'll update this page and the date above. Questions: appledeveloper@themagicfactory.co.