Scope
This policy explains how Yalla Focus handles information in the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch apps and on this website. Features may vary by device, operating-system version, region, and release.
Information stored on your device
Your tasks, focus history, courses, plans, rich notes, PDFs and annotations, notebooks and drawings, recordings and transcripts, links and embedded-web objects, flashcards, quizzes, garden progress, preferences, and Screen Time selections are stored locally by the app.
Screen Time selections are represented by opaque Apple tokens. Yalla Focus does not receive a readable list of the apps or categories you select.
Backups and Apple services
If you enable scheduled iCloud Drive backup or export a backup, Yalla Focus creates a versioned backup file containing your app data and attachments. The file is stored in the destination you choose or in your iCloud Drive under your Apple account. This is file backup, not live CloudKit database sync.
Apple controls iCloud, App Store purchases, notifications, Calendar, Screen Time, camera, microphone, speech recognition, widgets, Live Activities, and related system services under Apple's own terms and privacy practices.
Permissions you choose
- Notifications: to alert you when focus, break, or review time ends.
- Calendar: read-only access to display Apple Calendar events in your study timeline.
- Screen Time: to block apps you select during strict focus.
- Microphone and speech recognition: to record audio and create transcripts when you ask.
- Camera and photos: to add material you select to notes and notebooks.
You can change permissions in iOS Settings. Denying an optional permission only disables the feature that needs it.
On-device AI and embedded websites
Where supported, Yalla Focus uses Apple's on-device Foundation Models to turn selected study material into flashcards, quizzes, or summaries. The selected source is processed on the device by the operating system and is not sent to a Yalla Focus server.
For study generation, you can import an audio file or select a saved voice note, notebook recording, or audio attachment. The app reuses an existing transcript when available. New audio-file transcription uses Apple’s on-device speech recognition on iOS 26 or later, with your chosen supported language; the first use may download a language pack. Imported audio is copied to temporary local storage for processing. The transcript can be split into pieces, and only the pieces you select are used for generation. Saved-recording transcripts are kept with their recording. Yalla Focus does not upload this study audio or source text to its own server.
If you open or interact with a website embedded in a notebook, that website receives ordinary web requests and may collect data under its own privacy policy. Yalla Focus does not control third-party websites.
Purchases and subscriptions
Apple processes payments and keeps your payment details. Yalla Focus uses RevenueCat to validate purchases and determine whether Yalla Focus Pro is active. RevenueCat may process an app-generated customer identifier, product and transaction identifiers, entitlement status, country/store information, and technical purchase diagnostics. We do not receive your full card or bank details.
Learn more in RevenueCat's privacy policy and Apple's privacy policy.
Website and optional online features
The website launch list is now closed. If you signed up before launch, your submitted email address, selected language, and submission time were stored in Firebase for product-launch updates. You can unsubscribe or request deletion by emailing us.
If an online study-room feature becomes available and you choose to use it, Firebase may process an anonymous account identifier, room code, display name, membership, focus status, and online presence so the room works. Other members in that room can see the name and status you share.
Firebase is provided by Google. See Firebase privacy and security information.
Website advertising measurement
We advertise Yalla Focus on Google. So that we can tell which ads actually lead somewhere, the website loads one Google Ads tag and records a single event: that a visitor pressed a Download on the App Store button. The event tells Google the button was pressed and which ad click it followed. It carries no name, email address, or anything you typed, and we do not use it to build an advertising profile of you — ad personalization is switched off.
The tag loads only on the English and Arabic home pages, never on the privacy or terms pages. It sets a Google Ads cookie in the browsers where it is allowed to.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, advertising and analytics storage start denied under Google Consent Mode, so no advertising cookie is set unless you agree to it. Outside those regions the tag is allowed to set its cookie. You can block it in any region with your browser’s cookie or tracking-protection settings, or with an ad blocker — the site works exactly the same either way, and nothing about the app is affected.
App usage analytics from version 1.0.1
The iPhone and iPad app uses Google Analytics for Firebase to understand app launches and focus-session use. Events include the focus mode, planned and recorded minutes, number of sessions, and whether a focus record was completed. They do not include your notes, recordings, transcripts, filenames, links, or course and task titles.
Google associates these events with an app-instance identifier and processes app/device information, general location derived from the network connection, and automatically measured lifecycle and StoreKit purchase events. We do not provide a name, email, RevenueCat customer ID, or Firebase sign-in ID to Analytics. Advertising identifier support, vendor-identifier collection, and advertising personalization are disabled.
Analytics is used to understand and improve the app, not to show ads. Google processes and retains Analytics data under its service terms and our property settings. Deleting local study data does not itself delete previously transmitted Analytics events. Contact us with privacy requests. See Google's Analytics data disclosures.
Your controls
You can review and edit your content in the app, export a backup, disable scheduled backup, revoke permissions, manage or cancel subscriptions through Apple, and clear local app data. To request access to or deletion of information we control—such as a launch-list email—contact us from the same email address.
Security, children, and international processing
We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards, but no storage or transmission method is completely secure. Yalla Focus is a general study tool and is not knowingly directed to children under the minimum age required to consent to digital services in their country. If you believe a child submitted personal information to us, contact us.
Apple, Google, and RevenueCat may process information in countries other than yours using the safeguards described in their policies.
Changes and contact
We may update this policy as the product changes. The effective date above identifies the current version. Material changes will be communicated through an appropriate in-app or website notice.
Questions or privacy requests: support@yallafocus.com.