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. When you choose a chat through Kept's shortcut, Apple's Shortcuts app hands Kept that stretch of Messages on your iPhone; Kept keeps the chat you picked and drops every other text straight away, without saving it. 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.

This website

This website has no cookies, no analytics and no ads. Cloudflare, which hosts it, keeps standard request logs for security.

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.