Tolerated Help & Guide
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Getting started
What is an elimination diet?
An elimination diet temporarily removes selected foods, then reintroduces them systematically to explore whether they relate to your symptoms. It can provide useful personal eviden
Getting started
How Tolerated works
Choose the protocol that matches the guidance you are following. Setup shows what each protocol is commonly used for and when it may not fit. If you have a diagnosis or the diet is
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Choosing the right protocol
Start with the guidance that best matches your main goal. Each protocol in Setup has “Best for” and “Not ideal for” notes to help you compare without treating a food list as a diag
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Using Tolerated on Apple Watch
The Apple Watch app is included on every tier. It shows the current challenge, dose, and quick actions without requiring you to unlock your iPhone.
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Quick log and check-in history
Quick log is the fast daily check-in on each Today protocol card when no challenge reaction needs logging. Choose how the day felt, optionally add symptoms and a note, then save.
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Notifications and retesting
More › Notifications controls the optional morning reminder used while a reintroduction challenge is active. Choose whether reminders are on and the hour you prefer.
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Do I need a dietitian?
We strongly recommend working with a registered dietitian, especially if you have a diagnosed condition, are pregnant, or are planning changes for a child.
Getting started
Research sources
Tolerated’s protocols are built on published clinical guidelines and peer-reviewed research. Each protocol maps to a specific source — listed below — and the food lists are derived
Elimination phase
How long should elimination last?
There is no single duration for every protocol. Tolerated’s suggested baselines range from two weeks for some protocols to 12 weeks for SCD, while Acid Reflux / GORD is a trigger o
Elimination phase
What can I eat during elimination?
Check the Foods view — anything marked green is safe on your active protocol. The “All / Avoid / Testing / Verdicts” picker at the top lets you focus on what’s safe.
Elimination phase
Can I start reintroduction early?
For protocols with guided reintroduction, Tolerated enables the phase-transition action after the app’s minimum baseline. That is an availability rule, not a guarantee that today i
Elimination phase
Travel, illness, and flare days
Stress, travel, illness, sleep, treatment changes, and cycle symptoms can overlap with the symptoms you are tracking. They do not prove or disprove a food relationship, but noting
Reintroduction
Stacking multiple protocols
Protocol stacking lets Tolerated compare foods across more than one active protocol. It is free and there is no app-imposed limit, but each additional protocol can narrow the combi
Foods & thresholds
Traffic-light ratings
Green: low / safe by default on this protocol. Amber: moderate — often a quantity question, not a banned food. Red: high — avoid during elimination, a strong candidate to challenge
Foods & thresholds
Personal verdicts vs defaults
Once you complete a reintroduction challenge, your personal verdict overlays the default rating. The food reference becomes a picture of what *you* can eat, not just what the guide
Foods & thresholds
Personal thresholds
Many foods aren’t binary. You might tolerate one slice of bread but not three. Personal thresholds capture both a safe amount and a trigger amount, so your rotation respects the li
Foods & thresholds
Meal ideas
Meal Ideas pulls from your personal safe-food list. As you complete reintroduction challenges and mark foods tolerated, new meals unlock automatically.
Foods & thresholds
Checking a meal
Check a meal compares a typed ingredient list with every active protocol, your personal verdicts, and Food exclusions. Open Foods, then choose Check a meal.
Foods & thresholds
Hiding meals you won’t make
Some meal ideas are never going to land — you don’t eat lamb, you can’t face oats again, the family won’t touch quinoa. Long-press any meal in the list and choose “Hide this meal”.
Foods & thresholds
Cross-protocol flags
If you’re running multiple protocols, foods can be flagged on more than one. The food detail view surfaces this — “also flagged on Low Histamine”, for example — so you know which r
Insights
How insights are calculated
Insights are a pure pattern-analysis layer over your logs — no statistical inference, no guessing. Each card counts what’s actually in your data and tells you what it sees.
Insights
Retest patterns
When you challenge the same food twice or more, Insights tags the trajectory: “stable” if verdicts match, “improving” if tolerance is increasing, “worsening” if it’s decreasing.
Sharing with a carer
Share with Carer
Share a limited day-to-day summary with one carer, partner, or family member through iCloud. They see updates after CloudKit syncs; your symptom logs and food history stay private.
Sharing with a carer
Quick Needs
Quick Needs are short preset messages your carer sees after the shared CloudKit zone syncs — “Bathroom near please”, “Need to lie down”, or “Bland food today”. They reduce the effo
Sharing with a carer
Between us
Between us is a private two-way journal you and your carer keep together. You leave a short entry — how today felt, a thank-you, something you couldn’t say out loud — they see it i
Sharing with a carer
Tell my carer (Siri & widget)
Once you’ve set up sharing and Quick Needs, several surfaces let you broadcast a need quickly:
Data & privacy
Where your data lives
Tolerated keeps your data in the app’s local store unless you choose iCloud Sync, backup or export, Connected Apps, or Carer Sharing. Tolerated has no servers, no accounts, and no
Data & privacy
Connected apps
More › Preferences › Connected apps lets compatible apps on this iPhone read a small summary from Tolerated. Sharing is off until you turn on Share food and protocol summary.
Data & privacy
Exporting your data
More › Sharing / Self-care › Safe Foods Card. A one-page card per active protocol, print-friendly for your fridge or whoever is cooking. Free on every tier.
Data & privacy
Reports and Appointment Prep
More › Reports creates documents you can preview before sharing. Tolerated does not send a report automatically.
Data & privacy
Backup and restore
More › Data › Backup & Restore. A backup is a .toleratedbackup file — a ZIP archive containing every protocol, food status, challenge, symptom log, threshold, scan, and your core s
Data & privacy
Deleting a protocol or resetting data
More › Protocols › swipe a protocol — or tap the trash icon on the protocol dashboard. Deleting a protocol removes its food statuses, reintroduction challenges, symptom logs, and t
Data & privacy
Switching phones
If iCloud Sync was enabled on the old phone, sign into the new phone with the same Apple Account, enable iCloud Sync in Tolerated, and restart when prompted. CloudKit then begins r
Data & privacy
Gentle Mode
Gentle Mode is a simpler view for harder days. Tap the brain icon at the top-left of Today to toggle it on.
Data & privacy
AI Enhancements
AI Enhancements uses Apple’s on-device language model to classify ambiguous ingredients (“natural flavourings”, “modified starch”) and to explain ingredient-scan results in plain E
Data & privacy
Apple Health context
Tolerated can read Apple Health so your reintroduction results take account of what else was happening in your body that day. Short sleep or low HRV can amplify or mimic food react
Data & privacy
Importing from Tended
If you also use Tended (our chronic-illness journal), Tolerated can copy the foods and allergies you’ve recorded there into a starting food list.
Foods & thresholds
Scanning ingredient labels
Tap the scanner icon at the top of Foods to read an ingredient label with the camera. This isn’t barcode scanning — it reads the text on the packet directly, so it works on private
Foods & thresholds
Scan history
Every scan can be saved to your scan history — handy for products you buy again and want to remember whether they agreed with you. A clock icon appears in the Foods toolbar once yo
Tolerated+
What the free tier includes
Every protocol is free to track during elimination — including stacking. You can run as many of the 15 protocols simultaneously as you like, with the full food database, iCloud syn
Tolerated+
What Tolerated+ unlocks
Tolerated+ unlocks the work the app does on top of protocols — everything that helps you interpret, compare, and share your results.
Tolerated+
Demo mode
Demo Mode fills the app with realistic sample data so you can explore protocols, reintroduction, verdicts, Insights, scan history, and reports without changing your real records.