privacy
What Same Sky knows about you
Last updated 24 September 2026.
The invite code
Inviting someone creates a six character code. Because the person you are inviting is not paired with you yet, their phone cannot read anything private, so the code has to live somewhere both phones can reach. It is written to a shared lookup that we can read.
That record holds only the invite link and an expiry time. No name, no photo, no message, no location. It stops working 24 hours after it is made, whatever else happens. Only the phone that created a code is allowed to remove it, so the record itself is deleted the next time you open Same Sky after the invite has been taken up or has expired, when you replace the code, or when you use Delete everything.
The short version
Same Sky runs no server of its own. What the app stores lives on your phone and, if you pair with someone, in your own iCloud account, which we cannot read. The one exception is the invite code, described below, and it is deliberately small.
No analytics. No advertising SDKs. Nothing about you is sold or shared, and there is no mechanism in the app by which it could be.
On your phone
The two people you set up: names, cities, coordinates, time zones and waking hours. Your countdowns, your bucket list, your photo journal, and your record of tapping the moon.
In your iCloud, if you pair
Inviting a partner creates a shared record zone in your personal iCloud account and gives that one person access. Your photos and their photos travel through it.
That data sits in your Apple account under Apple’s terms, not in an account belonging to this app. We cannot read it, and that is a property of how it is built rather than a promise.
Location
Asked for once, optionally, at reduced accuracy, to work out which city you are in. You can decline and type a city instead. Coordinates stay on your device and are used to calculate the sun and the moon locally. If you pair, the city you chose is visible to that one person, since showing each of you the other’s sky is the point of the app.
Photos
Photos in the Days journal are stored on your device and, when paired, in your iCloud shared zone. They are not uploaded anywhere else, not scanned, and not used to train anything.
Weather
Current conditions come from Apple’s WeatherKit, which receives the coordinates needed to answer the request. Apple’s handling of that is covered by their privacy policy.
No account
There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to. Your setup is saved on the phone, and pairing works from the iCloud account already on the device. We never learn your email address, and we do not email you.
Reporting and blocking
Reporting something the other person sent removes it from your phone and opens an email to us that you write and send yourself, from your own mail app. The app attaches nothing to it; you decide what to include. Blocking someone is handled on your phone and in your iCloud: it takes away their access to your shared zone and keeps a list, on your phone, of who you blocked. None of that is sent to us.
Notifications
Generated on your device, and every type is off until you turn it on. Nothing is delivered while the person receiving it is asleep. Anything that would land in their night waits until morning.
Children
Same Sky is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them.
Deleting everything
Settings has two options. Erase this phone removes everything on the device and stops syncing. Delete everything does the same and also removes the shared copy from your iCloud, so the other person can no longer see it. Unpairing stops sharing. There is no server copy to chase.