Privacy policy

Native iOS app — November 6, 2026

This policy describes the Morse iPhone app, bundle ID com.arrangedgodly.morsecode, including TestFlight test builds. Contact help@arrangedgodly.com with privacy questions.

Camera and flashlight

While a message is committed to send, or the camera is listening, the app asks iOS to keep the screen on so a short auto-lock cannot interrupt it. This needs no extra permission and ends when the run ends. The flashlight works without camera access. iOS camera access enables the camera receiver. Receive mode shows a live preview and processes small brightness samples on your device to decode flashes. Morse does not record, save, or upload images or video. Stopping reception, switching modes, or backgrounding the app closes the camera. Backgrounding also turns off the flashlight. You can turn off Camera access for Morse in the iOS Settings app. Flashlight and screen-light broadcasts work without camera access.

Optional sound is generated on your device. The app does not request microphone access or record audio.

Messages and sharing

Typed text stays in the app's working memory. Messages you receive are filed in a received log kept in the app's private storage on your device, so you can read them back later. Each entry is only the decoded text and the time it was received, never images or video. The log holds the most recent 100 messages, is never uploaded, and you can delete single messages or clear the whole log in the app. Morse has no account system, server-side message history, advertising SDK, or analytics SDK.

Copy message, Copy Morse, and the translator's copy keys write text to your clipboard only when you press them; Morse does not read your clipboard. Other apps you paste into handle the content under their own policies. The Morse translator converts between text and dots and dashes entirely on your device. Nearby people can observe light and sound broadcasts.

Bundled app and external services

The native app bundles its interface and fonts and does not contact a website or font provider to operate. Opening a shared public website link makes network requests through your browser; the website's privacy policy applies there. Apple, the App Store, and TestFlight may process installation, account, or diagnostic information under their own policies. Morse does not receive your Apple Account credentials.

Retention and your choices

If you select “Don’t show this warning again,” Morse saves that warning preference locally on your device. It contains no message or camera data and is not uploaded. Morse also saves your chosen screen light colour, colour theme, and keep-screen-on setting locally. You can restore the warning in Broadcast options, or delete the app to remove all of its data.

Starting a new listening session clears the text on screen; finished messages stay in the received log until you delete them, clear the log, or delete the app. You can clear the broadcast input, stop reception or transmission, turn off camera access in Settings, and delete the app to remove all of its data. Clipboard contents and links you send are controlled by your device and the recipients. We have no server-side camera or message history to retrieve or delete.

If you email support, we and our email provider receive your address, message, and attachments to respond to your request. We retain that correspondence only as needed for support or legal obligations. You can request deletion at help@arrangedgodly.com.

Children and policy changes

The app does not ask for age or collect personal information through accounts or forms. Contact support if a child has supplied personal information through email so we can review deletion. We will update this policy when the app's data practices change.