Managing your data
What is kept where, what syncs between devices, the sharing options, and deleting everything.
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Here is where everything the app keeps actually lives, and what you can control.
Data that stays on your device
Your session summaries (date, technique, length, score, report), your intake answers, your settings and your notification preferences are stored on your device.
If iCloud is on, your session history syncs in your own iCloud account. So when you sign in on another device your history is there. We have no developer access to that area — it sits on Apple's infrastructure, in your account.
Your settings and intake answers sync in the same account, so a new device sets itself up the way you left it.
Audio
Audio is not recorded. The microphone runs only during a session and only the instant sound level is worked out from it. No audio file is written to disk.
The one exception is the audio sample permission below — if you haven't turned it on, audio is never recorded in any session.
Mindful minutes in Health
iPhone and iPad
In Settings → Apple Health there is a Write mindful minutes to Health switch. If you turn it on, each session that counts is written to the Health app as mindful minutes, with only its start and end time. The switch starts off. When you turn it on, Health asks only for this write permission, and if you don't allow it the switch stays off.
We also ask about this once. If you say "No thanks", we don't ask again.
Only sessions that count are written, including the ones you do on Apple Watch alone.
The minutes stay in Health. Delete my data doesn't touch them, and you can delete them in the Health app if you like.
Android
On up-to-date Android 14 and later there is a Write mindful minutes to Health Connect switch in Settings. If you turn it on, each session that counts is written to Health Connect as mindful minutes, with only its start and end time. The switch starts off. When you turn it on, only this write permission is requested, and if you don't allow it the switch stays off.
We also ask about this once. If you say "No thanks", we don't ask again.
Only sessions that count are written. The minutes stay in Health Connect, and Delete my data doesn't touch them.
Optional sharing
There are four separate switches under Settings → Privacy. They all start off, all of them begin with "anonymous", and each one is asked about separately.
Anonymous session summary. A randomly generated ID, the date and time, the technique, length, score, whether it was completed, whether the microphone was used, the app version and the report's technical values. Your name, email, location, device ID and health answers are never sent.
Anonymous audio samples. The sound of up to ten sessions a day is sent, compressed. Its only purpose is to measure how accurately breathing is detected. Once sent, the file is deleted from your device. This switch can only be turned on while the session summary is on, and it is never shown to anyone who says they're under thirteen.
Anonymous usage summary. Which screens were opened, how long they stayed open and which features were used, sent as a single count each time the app closes. The app's current state comes with it, such as the state of your streak and notifications, the device model, accessibility settings and the country from the region setting. The full list is in What we do with the data you share. Nothing you write, nothing that identifies you and none of your health answers are sent. It also appears as a separate option in the sharing question after your first session, unchecked.
Anonymous heart rate summary. Only for sessions done with Apple Watch: the average, starting and ending heart rate. This switch only appears if Soluklan is on your watch.
All of these can be turned off whenever you like. If you turn the session summary off, the other three go off too. If you turn audio sharing off, any pending audio files are deleted too.
We have written a separate article on what happens to the records you share after they reach us.
The question that comes up now and then
If you turned the anonymous session summary on, a short question may appear at the end of a session now and then: a score out of ten, followed by one more question. Both can be skipped, and you can also send just the score.
Along with the score, the text you write is sent too. Answer knowing that, and don't put anything identifying in the box. The full list of what is sent is in what we do with the data you share.
The more you skip it, the less often it is asked, and in the end it isn't asked at all.
You are also asked once when you finish or abandon a program.
Deleting everything
At the very bottom of Profile is Delete my data. If you confirm, your session history, streak, achievements, milestones, programs, heart rate records and intake answers are deleted, and the app starts again from the intake. Your notification settings stay as they are.
For the iCloud copy you need to use Apple's iCloud settings.
If you want records you shared anonymously deleted as well, writing to the support address is enough.
If you delete the app
The data on the device is deleted. The iCloud copy stays for a while under Apple's rules; if you reinstall the app, your history comes back.