Privacy policy

Who we are

Typeback is made by Patryk Reba, an independent developer based in Poland (“we”, “us”). He is the controller of the personal data described here, responsible for the app and this policy. Questions or requests: hello@typeback.app.

The keyboard and Full Access

Once you add the Typeback keyboard you can type with it like any keyboard. iOS asks you to allow Full Access for the AI features. Full Access lets the keyboard connect to the internet and share files with the Typeback app on your iPhone; Typeback needs both to send a conversation to the AI provider and to show the replies in the keyboard.

Apple warns that a keyboard with Full Access could send what you type. Typeback does not log, store or send your keystrokes. The only text from the message field it sends is the draft you ask it to rewrite (for example with Shorter, Warmer or Translate).

iOS doesn’t let third-party keyboards into password fields; the system keyboard appears there.

Reading your screen

A keyboard cannot see the app it types into, so Typeback reads the chat in one of the ways you choose to set up:

• Live mode uses iOS screen broadcasting, limited to Typeback’s own broadcast extension. It only starts when you start it (Back Tap, another shortcut, Control Center or the app), and iOS shows the red recording indicator the whole time. Frames are kept in the extension’s memory on your iPhone and dropped when Live mode pauses or stops. Live mode turns itself off after 10 minutes without use.
• Remember profiles I look at (part of Live mode, on by default, can be turned off): screens that look like a profile or a chat are saved on your iPhone for at most 15 minutes, so a reply can know who you’re talking to. They are deleted when Live mode starts, pauses or stops, when you tap Forget now, or when you turn the setting off. Only profile screens that appear to belong to the person whose chat you ask about are used, and only together with that chat’s replies.
• Screenshots with the Action Button use the “Typeback Replies” Apple Shortcut, which takes a screenshot each time you press it and hands it to Typeback. These screenshots are scaled down, kept on your iPhone for at most 15 minutes and are not saved to your Photos.

While Live mode runs, the broadcast technically receives everything on your screen, including other apps and notifications, and the audio playing on your iPhone. Typeback only analyses what it needs, on your device, and sends nothing until you ask for replies (except voice messages you play, with Transcribe voice messages I play on, see Voice and audio).

What goes to the AI provider

When you ask for replies (Generate replies, the “Typeback Replies” shortcut, opening the keyboard after taking screenshots with it, or a reply that appears when you open the keyboard in Live mode because you turned that on), Typeback sends one request with:

• The conversation on screen. By default your iPhone recognises the text itself (Apple’s on-device text recognition) and only that text is sent. In some cases, for example when the keyboard is short of memory, the screenshot image is sent instead, scaled down to at most 1200 pixels.
• Profile screens of that person you looked at in the last 10 minutes, if Live mode remembered them.
• What Typeback remembers about that person (see below) and the short summary of your own profile from the You tab, so replies sound like you.
• Your instruction, if you gave one (typed or dictated), and the transcripts of voice messages you played (see Voice and audio).
• Recent messages the chat app shares with keyboards, where iOS provides them (a feature of iOS 18.4 and later that only some apps use).

For a rewrite, only the draft in the message field and your instruction are sent.

Who receives it

Every request takes the same path, encrypted (HTTPS) at each step:

1. Your iPhone sends it to Typeback’s server, which runs on Convex in the United States (AWS, us-east-1). The server checks your daily allowance and passes the request on. It does not store the conversation, the screenshot, the audio or the replies.
2. The server passes it to the Convex AI Gateway, which forwards it to the AI model’s maker. Our provider keys stay on the server; your iPhone never talks to the AI providers directly.
3. The model’s maker writes the reply, which comes back the same way.

They process the request to produce the reply, under their own privacy terms (linked above). The AI providers receive the content of the request only, not your Typeback ID. Anthropic, Google and OpenAI may not use it to train their models. How long they may keep it:

• Reading the chat and writing replies: our server asks the Convex AI Gateway to use only zero-data-retention endpoints and no provider that collects data. The model’s maker then doesn’t keep the request or the reply after answering (it may hold part of the request briefly in memory to speed up the next one). If no such endpoint is available, the request fails instead of going anywhere else.
• Turning speech into text: the gateway offers no zero-data-retention option for audio. OpenAI, which does it by default, doesn’t keep speech-to-text requests to detect abuse.
• Convex AI Gateway: keeps usage and billing records (model, tokens, cost). Convex doesn’t publish a retention period for the content of requests passing through the gateway.

Typeback keeps the replies it receives on your iPhone; the screenshots themselves are never stored by Typeback.

Nothing is sent when you just type, or while Live mode runs without you asking for replies (except voice messages you play, if you turned on their transcription).

What our server keeps

Typeback’s server stores no chat text, screenshots, audio, transcripts or replies. To run the service and its daily allowance it keeps:

Daily totals per model with no user ID (for example “1,200 requests to model X on 3 March”) are kept longer, for our accounts. We ask Apple’s DeviceCheck to remember two yes/no flags for your iPhone (whether it already had a free trial); Apple stores them, not us, and they contain nothing about you.

Accounts not used for 12 months are deleted automatically, together with everything above.

Anonymous usage statistics

After you agree on the “AI and your chats” screen, Typeback sends a few anonymous events so we can see where people get stuck: the app was opened, a setup step was finished (for example the keyboard added with Full Access, a shortcut run, Live mode started), replies were shown or inserted, which built-in tweak was used, the trial started, the daily limit was reached, and data was deleted. Each event carries only the app and iOS version, your iPhone’s region setting and a random ID made just for this, separate from our server’s ID. Events never contain your chats, screenshots, names, replies, anything you type or the instructions you write, and the keyboard sends them only with Full Access on. They go to PostHog (PostHog Inc.), stored in its EU cloud, without your IP address and without a profile of you; we don’t use them for ads or share them, and PostHog keeps them for up to a year. Turn them off in Settings → About → Share anonymous usage data; Delete my data also replaces the random ID.

What stays on your iPhone

This is stored in the app’s private storage on your iPhone (shared only between the Typeback app and its own extensions). We never receive it.

• Chats: the people you talk to, as text: their name, the app, what their profile said, short descriptions of their photos (never the photos), and up to 400 recent messages.
• You: what you tell Typeback about yourself and how you text.
• History: which replies were shown, inserted or rewritten, so you can find them again and so Typeback can learn which ones you prefer.
• Words you keep after undoing an autocorrection, in iOS’s own on-device spelling dictionary.
• Settings and a technical log of AI requests (time, model, speed, cost; not the content).
• Short-lived screens and audio: remembered screens, auto screenshots and voice-message clips, each deleted after 10–15 minutes at most.

If you back up your iPhone, these files can be part of your iCloud or computer backup, under Apple’s terms.

Voice and audio

• Dictation (🎤 in the keyboard): a keyboard can’t use the microphone, so the Typeback app records instead. While Voice is on, the microphone stays open (iOS shows the orange dot), but only what you say between tapping 🎤 and stopping is kept. That recording is turned into text and deleted. Voice turns off by itself after 15 minutes without use.
• Voice messages in Live mode (on by default, as the app shows before you agree; turn it off in Settings → Live mode → Transcribe voice messages I play): when it’s on and you play a voice message or a video while Live mode runs, Typeback cuts the speech into short clips and turns them into text, so a reply knows what was said. Each clip is sent for transcription as soon as it’s heard, not only when you ask for replies, and only after you agreed in the app to send chats to the AI provider (at most 60 clips an hour). Clips are kept on your iPhone for at most 10 minutes and deleted when Live mode starts, pauses or stops, with Forget audio now, or when you turn the setting off. While it’s off, no sound your iPhone plays is kept or sent.
• Where speech becomes text: by default the audio goes the same way as a reply request (our server, then the Convex AI Gateway) to an OpenAI speech-to-text model, and only the text comes back. Our server doesn’t store the audio or the text.

What we don’t collect

• No account, name, email or phone number (unless you write to us). Our server knows your iPhone only by the random ID described above.
• No crash reporting, advertising or tracking SDKs, and no tracking across other companies’ apps and websites. The only analytics are the anonymous usage statistics above.
• No location, contacts or photo library access.
• No keystroke logging.

If you email us, we use your email address and message only to answer you.

Other people in your chats

The conversations and profiles you ask Typeback about contain other people’s messages, names and photos. They are processed only to write your reply, in the way described above, and what Typeback remembers about them stays on your iPhone. Please use Typeback only for conversations you are part of, and respect the terms of the apps you chat in.

Deleting your data

Everything at once: Settings → About → AI and your chats → Delete my data. This deletes your account on our server (the random ID, usage counts and request records) and everything Typeback remembers on your iPhone (people, chats, your profile, history, snippets, saved screens and audio). Your settings stay. It can’t be undone. If you stop using Typeback, our server deletes your account by itself after 12 months.

Or delete parts of it on your iPhone:

• One person: Chats → the person → Delete (or Clear conversation), or swipe the person left in Chats.
• Everyone: Chats → Delete all chats.
• Your profile: You → More (…) → Clear Profile.
• History: Chats → History → Clear.
• Remembered screens and audio: Settings → Live mode → Forget now (screens) and Forget audio now (voice-message clips). Stopping Live mode deletes both too.
• Everything on your iPhone: delete the Typeback app. This removes all of its data from your iPhone (use Delete my data first to also delete it from our server).

Our server never had your chats, so there is no copy of them to delete. The AI providers keep requests only as their terms above describe. You can also ask us by email to delete your data; because we only know your iPhone by a random ID, the button in the app is the surest way.

Your rights and legal basis

If you are in the EU, the UK or a similar jurisdiction, you have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the processing of your personal data, to data portability, and to complain to your data protection authority. Because Typeback keeps your data on your device, you can exercise most of these directly in the app. Settings → About → AI and your chats → Delete my data deletes everything our server holds about you. For anything else, write to hello@typeback.app.

We process the conversations you send to the AI provider to provide the service you ask for (performance of a contract) and because you agreed to it in the app’s “AI and your chats” screen. Chats, especially dating chats, can reveal sensitive information such as your sexual orientation, health or beliefs; we process that only on the basis of your explicit consent given there. You can withdraw it at any time in Settings → About → AI and your chats → Withdraw my OK; after that nothing more is sent.

Messages and profiles of the other people in your chats are processed on the basis of a legitimate interest, yours and ours, in letting you write your own replies, limited to what that requires: they pass through our server to the AI provider without being stored there.

We keep the usage counts and request records described in “What our server keeps” for our legitimate interest in running the service within its limits, protecting it from abuse and controlling its cost, for the periods given there.

The anonymous usage statistics rest on your consent on the same “AI and your chats” screen; you can withdraw it at any time with Settings → About → Share anonymous usage data.

International transfers

Our server (Convex, on Amazon Web Services) and the AI providers are in the United States, so if you use Typeback from the EU, the UK or Switzerland, your requests are transferred to the US. We rely on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses (and the UK and Swiss equivalents) in our providers’ data processing terms, and on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where a provider is certified under it.

Age

Typeback is meant for adults. You must be 18 or older to use it, and we don’t knowingly process data of anyone younger.

Changes

If Typeback changes what it collects or where it sends data, we will update this page and the date above before the change reaches the app, and point it out in the app for significant changes.

Contact: hello@typeback.app