Kept Texts Privacy Policy
Updated November 12, 2026
Kept Texts (called Kept on your Home Screen) turns a text conversation into a PDF on your iPhone. It has no account, and your texts, recordings and records never leave your iPhone unless you share them.
Your records stay on your iPhone
Kept reads your screen recording, screenshots or WhatsApp export on your iPhone. Nothing you record, read or save is sent anywhere unless you share it yourself, or turn on iCloud Backup for Kept.
No tracking, no advertising
Kept doesn't know who you are and has no way to contact you. It sends nothing about what you record or read.
What's sent when you buy a pass
Apple handles the payment. RevenueCat, the service that counts Kept's sales, receives which pass was bought, when, its price and an anonymous ID the app makes up. It never receives your name, email, card, texts, recordings or records. Its privacy policy is at revenuecat.com/privacy.
Purchases go through Apple
Passes are bought through the App Store. Kept sees only that a pass was bought and when, never your name, email or card.
What's stored, and where
- Records, recordings and frames are kept in protected files inside Kept, out of iCloud Backup unless you change that in Settings.
- Saved PDFs are in Files › On My iPhone › Kept › Records, where you can delete them.
- A recording made with Control Center is also saved to Photos by iOS. Kept doesn't delete it; you can.
Deleting everything
Settings › Delete Everything removes every record, recording and PDF Kept saved. Deleting the app does the same. Copies you shared, recordings in Photos and iCloud backups aren't removed by Kept.
Questions
Email the maker of Kept at support@fwrdsms.com (the address is shared with my other app, Fwrd).
Kept doesn't give legal advice and doesn't certify records.