The short version: your messages stay on your phone.

Your notes, photos, voice memos, and videos stay on your phone. We do not collect them. We do not see them. There is nowhere else for them to go.

Drift never asks for an email, a phone number, or a sign in. The app does not know who you are, and we never will.

Drift does not have a server. Your bottles, reveal dates, and sealed content all live in local storage on your device. Drift uploads nothing.

To record audio, take a photo, or capture a video, iOS asks for the matching permission. You choose whether to grant it.

Drift uses those permissions only for the action you started, and only on your device. You can change permissions at any time in the iOS Settings app.

If you allow notifications, Drift uses them to tell you when a bottle has washed ashore. Your device generates the notification locally. Apple delivers it under their standard system rules. Nobody else touches it.

If you have iCloud Backup turned on, your iPhone may include Drift data in your encrypted device backup. Apple handles that, not Drift. It follows your iCloud settings.

Because the app collects no information at all, it does not knowingly collect data from anyone, including children.

If anything about how Drift handles data changes, we update this page. The date at the top moves forward. The app also flags major changes.

Questions about privacy can go to Offhour through the support link on the App Store listing.