Where is my data?
From the app’s English Help & Guide · Reference release 1.0.33
Tended stores your journal and related records on your device. Optional iCloud sync, automatic backups, sharing with compatible apps, carer sharing, and reports or exports can create copies outside the app. Each has its own controls. Tended has no Cocoacorn account, analytics or developer data server.
iCloud sync
If you enable iCloud sync, Tended uses your private CloudKit database to sync app records between your devices. Cocoacorn does not receive these private records. Automatic backups use a separate iCloud Drive folder. Optional carer sharing uses a separate share with the participants you invite; it does not make your full journal public.
Sync and performance
When iCloud sync first runs — or after restoring a backup, setting up a new device, or re-enabling sync — the app may feel slower while it downloads and processes your data. This is completely normal and will settle once the initial sync completes.
The time it takes depends on how much data you have. A few months of entries syncs quickly. Several years of daily logging with photos may take longer. You can keep using the app during sync — data will appear gradually.
If you notice the app is sluggish, give it a few minutes with a good internet connection. Background App Refresh helps sync complete faster when the app is closed.
AI features
The AI-enhanced version of “Describe your day,” What this means on insight views, and AI-enhanced summaries all use Apple Intelligence, which runs entirely on your device. The lite version of Describe your day works without AI for all users. No data leaves your device for AI processing.
HealthKit
Tended reads Apple Health and never writes back to it. Original samples remain in Apple Health. Values saved in journal observations or retained as connected context become Tended records. They can appear in enabled personal iCloud sync, backups, selected reports or separately permitted sharing. Merely enabling a Health metric does not copy every sample into Tended or grant sharing.
Weather
Tended obtains weather conditions from Apple WeatherKit when you log an entry. Saved weather context becomes part of that entry and follows your enabled sync, backup and export choices.
Review your app lock
Review whether App Lock suits your device use.
You can review these choices without changing them. Use the normal app controls only if you decide a change is useful.
A closed padlock beside a closed journal.
Review your app lock: steps
- Find App Lock In Privacy, read the App Lock option and its explanation.
- Consider access on this device Think about who can unlock your device and whether additional app authentication is useful to you.
- Make your own choice If you change App Lock, follow the real authentication flow. You can also leave it unchanged and finish your review.
- Finish your review Tap Done at the end of these steps, or open Guide details and tap Finish review. This finishes the guide; it does not confirm a setting change or transfer.
Review your app lock · Fictional example
For illustration only. Nothing here changes your app records.
These fictional details explain the guide; they are not suggested values for your records.
- App Lock
An additional check when opening Tended
It controls app access; it does not change previously exported or shared copies.
Review your app lock: troubleshooting
If you enable App Lock, check that you can reopen Tended with the authentication offered on your device. Finishing this guide does not perform that check for you.